I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
JOSEPH CONRADGoing home must be like going to render an account.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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