A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
JOSEPH CONRADThe discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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