Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
JOSEPH CONRADGive me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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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