Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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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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