Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
JOSEPH CONRADPerhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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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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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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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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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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 shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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