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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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