Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
JOSEPH CONRADIf you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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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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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 like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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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.
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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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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