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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.

Joseph Conrad

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Art Aspiration Carry Condition Humble Justice Work
The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Capability Man Mindset
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Fiction One Liner Reality
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Achievement Build Rule
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Friendship Human Man Nature Support
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Enemy Friendship Judgement Man
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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Light Moon Mystery Passionate Soul
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Acceptance Discover Patience Right Understand
Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Kiss One Liner Paradise
It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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Extraordinary Eyes Life Support Thinking
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
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Art Life Long Short Success
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
We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Darkness Earth Live Long Old Past
That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Death Fall In Love Fundamental Love Separate Talk Truth
We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Alone Dreams Life Live Pain

Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.

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