They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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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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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.
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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.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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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