The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
JOSEPH CONRADYou know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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