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“I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.”

Joseph Conrad · Peace

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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

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

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

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

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