It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRADPerhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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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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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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 is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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