It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
JOSEPH CONRADThe 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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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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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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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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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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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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