It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRADThe mind of man is capable of anything.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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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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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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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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