It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRADThe 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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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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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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