Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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