The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
JOSEPH CONRADReality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities 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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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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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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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