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Quote by Joseph Conrad
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed,

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. – Joseph Conrad

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A mans 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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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. – Joseph Conrad

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Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas. – Gunther Grass

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When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall — think of it, ALWAYS. – Mahatma Gandhi

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Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Make sense who may. I switch off. – Samuel Beckett

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What breadth, what beauty and power of human nature and development there must be in a woman to get over all the palisades, all the fences, within which she is held captive! – Alexander Herzen

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I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor. – Pierre Corneille

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