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.
JOSEPH CONRADFew men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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