The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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