To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
JOSEPH CONRADA writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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