What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
JOSEPH CONRADTo 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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