It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
JOSEPH CONRADA word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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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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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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