The 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.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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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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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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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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