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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Joseph Conrad

All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Desire Heart Leadership Oneself Road
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Afraid Bliss Yourself
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Ambition Exception Kind Law Man
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Myself Power Right Word World
All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Betrayal Conscience Himself Rule
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Goal Man Myself Peace
God is for men, and religion for women.
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God Man One Liner Religion Woman
We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Alone Dreams Life Live Pain
I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Discover Myself Work
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Darkness Himself Power
Never test another man by your own weakness.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Judgement Man Weakness Yourself
I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Legs Mindset Myself Road
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Adventure Romance Spirit Task
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Ocean Sea Spirit Yourself
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

Argument Himself Power Right Trust World
Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Illusion Lonely Memories Misery Naked Terrorism True Word

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

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