We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
JOSEPH CONRADThey 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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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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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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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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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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