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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

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Community Crime Faith Kind Man Reality
All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Desire Heart Leadership Oneself Road
Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Judgement Man Weakness Yourself
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
Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Account Home Journey
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
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Afraid Bliss Yourself
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Ambition Exception Kind Law Man
We can never cease to be ourselves.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Be Yourself One Liner Ourselves
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Cure Live Question
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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Eyes Lost Lying See Truth Wind Writing
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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Brutal Force Strength Weakness Yourself
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Acceptance Discover Patience Right Understand
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
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Adventure Romance Spirit Task
I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Discover Myself 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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