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“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.”
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“No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone.”
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“If my devils are to leave me, I am afraid my angels will take flight as well.”
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“Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.”
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“How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”
― Lord Jim
― Lord Jim
Around the World in 80 Books
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