What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!
Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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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.
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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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Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad in Carnival of Wit
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Joseph Conrad in Under Western Eye
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