Going home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRAD
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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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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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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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