Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
JOSEPH CONRADPerhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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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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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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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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