Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
JOSEPH CONRADNowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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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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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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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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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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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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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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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