You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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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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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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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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