Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
JOSEPH CONRADGossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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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 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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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 am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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