You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
JOSEPH CONRADReality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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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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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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We live as we dream – alone.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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