One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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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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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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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