It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
JOSEPH CONRAD
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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