One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
JOSEPH CONRADMy 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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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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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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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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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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