The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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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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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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