It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
JOSEPH CONRADWho 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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