A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
JOSEPH CONRADThe mind of man is capable of anything.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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