Going home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRADGossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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