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Joseph Conrad

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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Accomplishment Achievement Blessing Greatness Rule Warm World
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
It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Mistake Myself Work
Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Deep Dreams Fear Life One Liner
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Enjoyment Reality Talk
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Achievement Greatness Yourself
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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Believe Exploration Ocean Oneself Particle Truth
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Interest Sympathy Writing
You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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Death Forget Hate Mortal Myself Simplicity World
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Art Life Long Short Success
I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Discover Myself Work
Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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Darkness Himself Power
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Cruelty Discover Greatness Greedy History Occasion
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Fiction One Liner Reality
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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Darkness Earth Live Long Old Past
A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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End Serene Simplicity Social Soul

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