I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
JOSEPH CONRADWords, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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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 is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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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 question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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