Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
JOSEPH CONRADGoing home must be like going to render an account.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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