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Never test another man by your own weakness.

Joseph Conrad

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
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Desire Heart Leadership Oneself Road
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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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Live Memories Passion Pretend Truth
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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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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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.

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