It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
JOSEPH CONRADTo have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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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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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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