Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
JOSEPH CONRADThat’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Nowhere 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.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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