You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
JOSEPH CONRADFollow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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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 ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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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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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 word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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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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