It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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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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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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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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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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