It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
JOSEPH CONRADOne must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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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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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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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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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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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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