Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRADAll ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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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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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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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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