What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
JOSEPH CONRADFollow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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