Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
JOSEPH CONRADBut 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!
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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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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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 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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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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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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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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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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