A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
JOSEPH CONRADWho 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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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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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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