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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Joseph Conrad

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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Art Bird Destroy History Repeat Reproduction Song Wild World
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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Action Myself Silence Talk
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Enemy Friendship Judgement Man
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Ocean Sea Spirit Yourself
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Cruelty Discover Greatness Greedy History Occasion
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Acceptance Discover Patience Right Understand
The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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Creation Cruelty Ethics Mad Universe View
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Goal Man Myself Peace
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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Betrayal Desperate Explanation Human Love Nature Possible Time
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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Achievement Feeling Myself Power See Try Word Writing Yourself
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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Devotion Human Leadership Nature Noble Revolution Selfish Victim
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Charm Life Sea
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Myself Power Right Word World
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Afraid Bliss Yourself
One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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Believe Exploration Ocean Oneself Particle Truth
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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Conscience Kind Man Nature Tragedy Victim

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