To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

Quote by Joseph Conrad

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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

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...

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be...

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be...

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...

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps...

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps...

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...

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away...

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away...

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

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...

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the...

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the...

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying...

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying...

I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But...

I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But...

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

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of...

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of...

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.

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

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

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

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

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.