The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD
The 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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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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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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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