I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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 occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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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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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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 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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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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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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