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Never test another man by your own weakness.

Joseph Conrad

It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Action Myself Silence Talk
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Achievement Build Rule
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Betrayal Desperate Explanation Human Love Nature Possible Time
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Ambition Exception Kind Law Man
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Believe Experience Luck Man Mark
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Beyond Carry Move Normal Order Ourselves
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Art Imagination Invention Life Master
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Himself Man Work
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Goal Man Myself Peace
All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Desire Heart Leadership Oneself Road
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Ocean Sea Spirit Yourself
Going home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Account Home Journey
We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Darkness Earth Live Long Old Past
If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
JOSEPH CONRAD

Defeat Failure Inspirational Mistake Perspective Yourself
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Cure Live Question
You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Death Forget Hate Mortal Myself Simplicity World

Never test another man by your own weakness.

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