A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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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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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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