Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
JOSEPH CONRADProtection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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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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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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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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 certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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