I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
JOSEPH CONRADI always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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