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

Joseph Conrad

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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End Serene Simplicity Social Soul
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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Argument Himself Power Right Trust World
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
He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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Bilnd Faith Fear Mystery Soul Struggle
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Believe Experience Luck Man Mark
Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Account Home Journey
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
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Adventure Romance Spirit Task
We live as we dream – alone.
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Alone Dreams Live One Liner
You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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Clear Integrity Man Moral Responsibility Sound
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
Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Kiss One Liner Paradise
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Face Hard Time Inspirational Way
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
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Achievement Greatness Yourself
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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Illusion Lonely Memories Misery Naked Terrorism True Word

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

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

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