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.
JOSEPH CONRADProtection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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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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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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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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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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