Quote by Joseph Conrad
It is when we try to grapple with another mans intimate need that

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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The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky…. – Joseph Conrad

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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. – Joseph Conrad

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teacher
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The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky — seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. – Joseph Conrad

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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. – Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Groups of people are like a massive Rock, Paper, Scissors war. – Daniel, @blindedpoet

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Paradoxical as it sounds, many intellectuals prefer life in the mud to life in clear water. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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When we look on the characters of man and woman, we cannot but perceive that neither is perfect by itself, but that each needs the other for its perfection…. Hence the one must be softened by tender emotions, and the other strengthened by firmness. – Frederick A. Rauch, Psychology; or, A View of the Human Soul: Including Anthropo

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Once an absurdity is accepted as truth, it will seem truer the more absurd it is shown to be. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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The wisest one-word sentence? Breathe. – Terri Guillemets

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The working men, Ill go by and theyll whistle. At first they whistle because they think, Oh, its a girl. Shes got blond hair and shes not out of shape, and then they say, Gosh, its Marilyn Monroe! – Marilyn Monroe

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There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt. – Erma Bombeck

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