It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRADVanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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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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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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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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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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