It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
JOSEPH CONRADYou can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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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.
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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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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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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