Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRADI 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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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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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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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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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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