That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
JOSEPH CONRADA certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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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 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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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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.
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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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