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.
JOSEPH CONRADYour strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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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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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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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