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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

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
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Charm Life Sea
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
Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Account Home Journey
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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Earth Light Live Old Run
I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Discover Myself Work
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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Art Belief Escape Knowledge Man Quite Shadow Understand
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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Intellectual Kind Man Measurement Misery Universal
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Myself Power Right Word World
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Achievement Build Rule
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Carry Deal Destruction Fly Space Word
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Enemy Friendship Greatness Word
Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Judgement Man Weakness Yourself
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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Art Bird Destroy History Repeat Reproduction Song Wild World
We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Be Yourself One Liner Ourselves
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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Appearance Different Earth Yourself

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