In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

JOSEPH CONRAD

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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

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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.

JOSEPH CONRAD

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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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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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.

JOSEPH CONRAD

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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All a man can betray is his conscience.

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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

JOSEPH CONRAD

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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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.

JOSEPH CONRAD

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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

JOSEPH CONRAD

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

JOSEPH CONRAD

Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

JOSEPH CONRAD

A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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We live as we dream – alone.

JOSEPH CONRAD

We live as we dream – alone.
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

JOSEPH CONRAD

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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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.

JOSEPH CONRAD

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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

JOSEPH CONRAD

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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