We live as we dream – alone.
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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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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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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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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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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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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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