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.
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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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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