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.
JOSEPH CONRAD
It 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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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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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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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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