The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
JOSEPH CONRADGive me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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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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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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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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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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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 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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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We live as we dream – alone.
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