There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow 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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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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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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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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