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.
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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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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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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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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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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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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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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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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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