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.
JOSEPH CONRADYour strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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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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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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 respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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