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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Joseph Conrad

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
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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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
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Cruelty Discover Greatness Greedy History Occasion
I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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Afraid History Inspirational Myself Work Yourself
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Mistake Myself Work
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.
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Chance Discover Reality Work Yourself
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Afraid Bliss Yourself
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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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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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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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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

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