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

— Joseph Conrad

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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. ↗

— 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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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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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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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 as of life. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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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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Oh, that character was light years away from me. I'm not debonair. I'm not suave. I did wear tight pants, though, because I found out that it worked. ↗

— Robert Conrad

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I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible. ↗

— David Copperfield

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