Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
JOSEPH CONRADGive me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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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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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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The mind of man is capable of 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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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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