"As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs."
-Joseph Conrad
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"Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.“
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"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
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"Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends."
-Joseph Conrad
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"Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life."
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"A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
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"The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power."
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-Willie Stargell
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"There were no temples or shrines among us save those of nature."
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