There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
JOSEPH CONRADKisses are the remnants of paradise.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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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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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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I 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.
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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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