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Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Soren Kierkegaard: 'Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic if it is pulled out I shall die.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Herman Melville: 'The march of conquest through wild provinces, may be the march of Mind; but not the march of Love.' Read More
Sophocles 12/16/23 Sophocles 12/16/23 Herman Melville: 'There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: '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 to go.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.' Read More
Aristotle 12/16/23 Aristotle 12/16/23 Joseph Conrad: 'There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.' Read More