God is for men, and religion for women.
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 man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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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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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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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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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow 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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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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