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Description: Joseph Conrad quote: Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Description: Joseph Conrad quote: 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.

Description: Joseph Conrad quote: An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

Description: Joseph Conrad quote: “Perhaps life is just that... a dream and fear.”

Description: Joseph Conrad quote: Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

Description: Joseph Conrad quote: What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Description: Joseph Conrad quote: “It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”

Description: Joseph Conrad quote: “To see! to see!—this is the craving of the sailor, as of the rest of blind humanity. To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.”

Description: Joseph Conrad quote: Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

Description: Mary Wollstonecraft quote: An ardent affection for the human race makes enthusiastic characters eager to produce alteration in laws and governments prematurely. To render them useful and permanent, they must be the growth of each particular soil, and the gradual fruit of the ripening understanding of the nation, matured by time, not forced by an unnatural fermentation.

Description: Mary Wollstonecraft quote: The endeavouring to keep alive any hoary establishment, beyond it’s natural date, is often pernicious and always useless.

Description: Mary Wollstonecraft quote: It appears to me impossible that I should cease to exist, or that this active, restless spirit, equally alive to joy and sorrow, should only be organised dust — ready to fly abroad the moment the spring snaps, or the spark goes out which kept it together. Surely something resides in this heart that is not perishable, and life is more than a dream.

Description: Mary Wollstonecraft quote: Taught from their infancy, that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and, roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Description: Mary Wollstonecraft quote: Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience;

Description: Mary Wollstonecraft quote: Nothing could be more natural than the developement of the passions, nor more striking than the views of the human heart. What delicate struggles! and uncommonly pretty turns of thought!

Description: Mary Wollstonecraft quote: A standing army, for instance, is incompatible with freedom; because subordination and rigour are the very sinews of military discipline; and despotism is necessary to give vigour to enterprises that one will directs. A spirit inspired by romantic notions of honour, a kind of morality founded on the fashion of the age, can only be felt by a few officers, whilst the main body must be moved by command, like the waves of the sea; for the strong wind of authority pushes the crowd of subalterns forward, they scarcely know or care why, with headlong fury.

Description: Mary Wollstonecraft quote: Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

Description: Mary Wollstonecraft quote: You know I am not born to tread in the beaten track — the peculiar bent of my nature pushes me on.

Description: Mary Wollstonecraft quote: Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil

Description: Mary Wollstonecraft quote: It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world!

Description: Mary Wollstonecraft quote: till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed, because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavour to settle that power on a Divine right, which will not bear the investigation of reason.

Description: Mary Wollstonecraft quote: Virtue can only flourish among equals.

Description: Montesquieu quote: Si je savois une chose utile à ma nation qui fût ruineuse à une autre, je ne la proposerois pas à mon prince, parce que je suis homme avant d'être François, (ou bien) parce que je suis nécessairement homme, et que je ne suis Français que par hasard.

Description: Montesquieu quote: Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

Description: Montesquieu quote: The good sense and happiness of individuals largely consists in their having middling talents and fortunes. If a republic whose laws have formed many middling people is composed of sober people, it will be governed soberly; if it is composed of happy people, it will be very happy.

Description: Montesquieu quote: Do you think that God will punish them for not practicing a religion which he did not reveal to them

Description: Montesquieu quote: Il n’y a point de plus cruelle tyrannie que celle que l’on exerce à l’ombre des lois et avec les couleurs de la justice, lorsqu’on va, pour ainsi dire, noyer des malheureux sur la planche même sur laquelle ils s’étaient sauvés.

Description: Montesquieu quote: No tyranny is more cruel than the one practiced in the shadow of the laws and under color of justice — when, so to speak, one proceeds to drown the unfortunate on the very plank by which they had saved themselves.

Description: Montesquieu quote: People here argue about religion interminably, but it appears that they are competing at the same time to see who can be the least devout.

Description: Montesquieu quote: The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.

Description: Montesquieu quote: Le succès de la plupart des choses dépend de savoir combien il faut de temps pour réussir.

Description: Montesquieu quote: ai toujours vu que, pour réussir dans le monde, il fallait avoir l'air fou et être sage.

Description: Montesquieu quote: I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

Description: Montesquieu quote: A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death.

Description: Montesquieu quote: Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.

Description: Willa Sibert Cather quote: Where there is great love there are always miracles.