The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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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We live as we dream – alone.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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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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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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