One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
JOSEPH CONRADI 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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That’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.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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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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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community 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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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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