Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Quote by Joseph Conrad

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For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have...

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have...

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an...

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an...

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the...

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the...

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite...

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite...

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but...

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but...

All a man can betray is his conscience

All a man can betray is his conscience

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the...

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the...

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

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

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of...

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of...

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact...

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact...

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its...

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its...

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by...

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by...

All a man can betray is his conscience

All a man can betray is his conscience

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back...

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back...

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.