I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
JOSEPH CONRADWe live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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