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.
JOSEPH CONRADI 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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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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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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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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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