It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
JOSEPH CONRADBeing a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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