A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
JOSEPH CONRADA man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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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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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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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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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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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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