We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
JOSEPH CONRADThere is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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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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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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