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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.

Joseph Conrad

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Aspiration Clear Existence Human Path Temper
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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Audacity Belief Character Essence Expression Life Man Safety Surround
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Illusion Profit Respect Safety
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Afraid Bliss Yourself
You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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Clear Integrity Man Moral Responsibility Sound
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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Intellectual Kind Man Measurement Misery Universal
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Enemy Friendship Greatness Word
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
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Ocean Sea Spirit Yourself
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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Argument Himself Power Right Trust World
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Achievement Greatness Yourself
It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Mistake Myself Work
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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Appearance Different Earth Yourself
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Himself Man Work

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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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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