It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
JOSEPH CONRADI am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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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You 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.
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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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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