It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRADYour strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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