"Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear."
-Joseph Conrad
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"All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.“
-Joseph Conrad
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"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?"
-Joseph Conrad
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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 quality of strength that matters for their work."
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"To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot."
-Joseph Conrad
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"History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird."
-Joseph Conrad
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"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage."
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