They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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 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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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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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.
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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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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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We live as we dream – alone.
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