I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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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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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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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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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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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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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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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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