Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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