A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
JOSEPH CONRADGossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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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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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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