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.
JOSEPH CONRADAny fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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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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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 to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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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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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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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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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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