The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - … - Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad

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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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

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I don't like work. . . but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

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You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you.

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If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything.

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At first view it might seem not to square with the republican theory, to suppose either that a majority have not the right, or that a minority will have the force to subvert a government. . . . But theoretic reasoning in this, as in most other cases, must be qualified by the lessons of practice.

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I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon which the Sun so violently darted his Rays, that the Heat, which attracted them, as it does the thickest Clouds, carried me up so high, that at length I found my self above the middle Region of the Air.

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It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog.

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