I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

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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...

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those...

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those...

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...

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

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

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

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...

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification...

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification...

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity....

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity....

Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror?...

Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror?...

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror?...

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror?...

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women...

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women...

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not...

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not...

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient,...

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient,...

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for...

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for...

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is...

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is...