A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
JOSEPH CONRADThe real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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