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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

Joseph Conrad

There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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Intellectual Kind Man Measurement Misery Universal
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Ocean Sea Spirit Yourself
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Carry Fools Man Time Wisdom
The mind of man is capable of anything.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Capability Man Mindset
If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
JOSEPH CONRAD

Defeat Failure Inspirational Mistake Perspective Yourself
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Cruelty Discover Greatness Greedy History Occasion
You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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Clear Integrity Man Moral Responsibility Sound
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Art Life Long Short Success
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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Betrayal Desperate Explanation Human Love Nature Possible Time
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Luxury Necessary Protection
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Appearance Different Earth Yourself
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Death Forget Hate Mortal Myself Simplicity World
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Darkness Himself Power
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Believe Experience Luck Man Mark
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Achievement Build Rule
That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Death Fall In Love Fundamental Love Separate Talk Truth

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

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