All a man can betray is his conscience.
JOSEPH CONRADEverybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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I 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.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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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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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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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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