A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
JOSEPH CONRADYour strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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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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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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