It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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