It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRADThe 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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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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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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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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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