The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRADI am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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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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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.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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