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By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straight out. Very well. He has done it. Perhaps he can ride. But there is a way of looking at a halter that would provoke the most charitable of saints into a kick.
— Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Tags: social-norms, philosophy, humanity, hierarchy

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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
— Joseph Conrad
Tags: recovery, inspirational, illness, healing, cures, cure, chronic-illness
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
— Joseph Conrad
Tags: man, heart, hope, life, love
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
— Joseph Conrad
Tags: belief, evil, men, alone
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.
— Joseph Conrad
Tags: imagination, truth, art, life
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?
— Joseph Conrad
Tags: wonder, fear, you, heart
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