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Quote by Joseph Conrad
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The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death. – Joseph Conrad

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? – Joseph Conrad

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Fear
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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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Any proverbs about weather are doubly true during a storm. – Terri Guillemets, “The truth of weather,” 2006

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Weather

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. – Jonathan Swift

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Weather

Name the season’s first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Weather

Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things, but just look what they can do when they stick together. – Vista M. Kelly

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Weather

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We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves. – Dalai Lama

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Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view. – August Strindberg

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Friendship

I think at some stage, I would love to have another child. I would love to settle into a relationship that was really important to me. I actually am not good at the balance at that. – Nicole Kidman

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relationship

My new life goes beyond my dreams because my dream was Formula One and I achieved it. Im a driver, I feel like a driver. I have won this race because I am alive. – Maria de Villota

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