Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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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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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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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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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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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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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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