The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
JOSEPH CONRADFacing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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 sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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