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.
JOSEPH CONRADThe real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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