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Joseph Conrad
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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."
Knowledge
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Men
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Wisdom
"How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat?"
Art
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Fear
"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."
Age
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Courage
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Desires
"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions."
Friends
"All a man can betray is his conscience."
Men
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
Ability
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Evil
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Faith
"Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow."
Happiness
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Joy
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Sorrow
"Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality."
Excellence
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Knowledge
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Wisdom
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
Ability
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Evil
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Faith
"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."
Age
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Art
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Honesty
"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends."
Friends
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Men
"The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."
Ability
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History
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Men
"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook."
Attitude
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Friends
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Men
"The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds."
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