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.
JOSEPH CONRADThe scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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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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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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