We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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