There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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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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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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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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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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