Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
JOSEPH CONRADEverybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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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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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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