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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

Joseph Conrad

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Friendship Human Man Nature Support
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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Action Myself Silence Talk
We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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Darkness Earth Live Long Old Past
I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Legs Mindset Myself Road
We live as we dream – alone.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Alone Dreams Live One Liner
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Cure Live Question
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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Art Creative Magic Surprise
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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Conscience Kind Man Nature Tragedy Victim
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Audacity Belief Character Essence Expression Life Man Safety Surround
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Community Crime Faith Kind Man Reality
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Interest Sympathy Writing
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Luxury Necessary Protection
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Adventure Romance Spirit Task
He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Argument Himself Power Right Trust World
But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
JOSEPH CONRAD

Earth Light Live Old Run
We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Alone Dreams Life Live Pain

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

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