It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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 task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face 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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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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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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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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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