It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
JOSEPH CONRADIt occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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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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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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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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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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