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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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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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Other men are lenses through which we read our own minds. Each man seeks those of different quality from his own, and such as are good of their kind; that is, he seeks other men, and the rest. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The ones who count are those persons who – Martin Buber

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The present ideal is the worship of the gents who sing like canaries and the women who bellow like lions. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

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We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. – Charles Horton Cooley

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