God is for men, and religion for women.
JOSEPH CONRADGoing home must be like going to render an account.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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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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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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