We can never cease to be ourselves.
JOSEPH CONRAD
All a man can betray is his conscience.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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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.
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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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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Few 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.
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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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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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