We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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