To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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 is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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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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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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