Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
JOSEPH CONRADYou 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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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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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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