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

JOSEPH CONRAD

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

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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.

JOSEPH CONRAD

To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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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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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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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.

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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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.

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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.

JOSEPH CONRAD

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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Faith Fear Mystery Soul Struggle
Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Kiss Paradise
The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

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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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Friendship Human Human Nature Man Nature Support
If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.

JOSEPH CONRAD

The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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Creation Cruelty Mad View
You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.

JOSEPH CONRAD

You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

JOSEPH CONRAD

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Fools Man Time Wisdom
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

JOSEPH CONRAD

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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Aspiration Clear Existence Human Path Temper
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.

JOSEPH CONRAD

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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