A man’s most open actions have a secret side to …– Joseph Conrad
A man’s most open actions have a secret side to them.
A man’s most open actions have a secret side to them.
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Going home must be like going to render an account.
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man
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