You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
JOSEPH CONRADYou can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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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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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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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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