I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
JOSEPH CONRADTo be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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