It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRADIf you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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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 occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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