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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.

Joseph Conrad

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Believe Experience Luck Man Mark
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Carry Fools Man Time Wisdom
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Adventure Romance Spirit Task
All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Desire Heart Leadership Oneself Road
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Carry Deal Destruction Fly Space Word
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Charm Life Sea
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Extraordinary Eyes Life Support Thinking
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Intellectual Kind Man Measurement Misery Universal
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Betrayal Desperate Explanation Human Love Nature Possible Time
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Action Myself Silence Talk
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!
JOSEPH CONRAD

Earth Light Live Old Run
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Books Friendship Leaving Old Pocket Solid
The mind of man is capable of anything.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Capability Man Mindset
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Live Memories Passion Pretend Truth
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Death Excitement Imagination Yourself
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Ambition Exception Kind Law Man

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.

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