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Joseph Conrad writes about how a man's belief can shape his whole character and what he can do. He also says a man is first a worker, and without that work he feels empty. In his pictures the night and the moon turn the world quiet, making men deaf and blind to everything else.

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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.

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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

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Never test another man by your own weakness.

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God is for men, and religion for women.

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A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.

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The mind of man is capable of anything.

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The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want…

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Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men.

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The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of…

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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art…

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As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the…

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A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

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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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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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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of…

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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…

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Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our…

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It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the…

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The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What…

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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact…

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One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having…

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For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while,…

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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It…

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The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The…

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In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs…

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The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver - over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall…

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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever,…

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It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the…

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Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have…

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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. And…

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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

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The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires.

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An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated…

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Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants…

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I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.

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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of…

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For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end.

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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in…

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“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of…

The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

“Let the earth and the sea each have its own.”

He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.

“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.”

“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there…

Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief…

“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -…

“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.”

“The fascination of the abomination—you know.”

It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world;…

I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each…

Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it…

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality