I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
JOSEPH CONRADFacing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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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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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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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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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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