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.
JOSEPH CONRADA task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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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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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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