Going home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Who 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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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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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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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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