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We can never cease to be ourselves.

Joseph Conrad

It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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Betrayal Desperate Explanation Human Love Nature Possible Time
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
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Alone Belief Evil Man Necessary Quite Source Wickedness
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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Creation Cruelty Ethics Mad Universe View
We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Be Yourself One Liner Ourselves
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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Aspiration Clear Existence Human Path Temper
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Goal Man Myself Peace
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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Achievement Feeling Myself Power See Try Word Writing Yourself
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Acceptance Discover Patience Right Understand
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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Action Myself Silence Talk
I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Discover Myself Work
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
Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Account Home Journey
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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Eyes Lost Lying See Truth Wind Writing
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

We can never cease to be ourselves.

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