There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
JOSEPH CONRADBut it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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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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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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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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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