If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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