Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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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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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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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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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!
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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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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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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