It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
JOSEPH CONRADIt’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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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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.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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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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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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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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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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