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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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As to honor – you know – its a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasnt theirs. – Joseph Conrad

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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life. – Joseph Conrad

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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. – Joseph Conrad

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The person who lives by hope will die by despair. – Italian Proverb

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Fatalism is the lazy mans way of accepting the inevitable. – Natalie Clifford Barney

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