You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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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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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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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.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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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.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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