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.
JOSEPH CONRADTo be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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 be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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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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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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