It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
JOSEPH CONRADA task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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