I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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The 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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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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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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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 occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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