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.
JOSEPH CONRADEverybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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We live as we dream – alone.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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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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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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