The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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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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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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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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