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Quote by Joseph Conrad
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable a

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. – Joseph Conrad

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. – Joseph Conrad

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Feminism
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Joseph Conrad
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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. – Joseph Conrad

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Butterflies
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Joseph Conrad
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It is when we try to grapple with another mans intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. – Joseph Conrad

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People
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Illusion
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The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life. – Sigmund Freud

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Illusion

Oh, how powerfully the magnet of illusion attracts. – Gutzkow

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Illusion

Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion. – Susan Shaughnessy

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Illusion

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. – Yasutani Roshi

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Illusion

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It has been said that art is a tryst, for in the joy of it maker and beholder meet. – Kojiro Tomita

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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process. – Vincent Van Gogh

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work

I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am? – Stephen Colbert

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inspirational

And who can doubt that it will lead to the worst disorders when minds created free by God are compelled to submit slavishly to an outside will? When we are told to deny our senses and subject them to the will of others? – Galileo Galilei

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Conformity