Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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 real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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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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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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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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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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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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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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It’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.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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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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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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My 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.
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