I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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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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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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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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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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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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.
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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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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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