The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
JOSEPH CONRADWe live as we dream – alone.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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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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We live as we dream – alone.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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