Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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