The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
JOSEPH CONRADA man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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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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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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