The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
JOSEPH CONRADThere 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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