As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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But 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!
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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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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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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