The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
JOSEPH CONRADGod is for men, and religion for women.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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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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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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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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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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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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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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