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.
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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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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 mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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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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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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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