I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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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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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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