Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
JOSEPH CONRADMy task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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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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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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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.
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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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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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 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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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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