I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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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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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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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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