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 CONRADAll ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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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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We live as we dream – alone.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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