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"A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing." ~ Joseph Conrad

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

Did you know that "if" is the middle of the word "life"?

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

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.

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open- eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.

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

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