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.
JOSEPH CONRAD
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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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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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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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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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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