I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
JOSEPH CONRADEverything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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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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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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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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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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