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Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

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Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. ↗

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

— Joseph Conrad

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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks sweet to the lazy and the stupid and the weak, and this only strengthens their infirmities and teaches nothing, cures nothing, nor does it let the heart soar. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

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