A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRADTo be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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