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.
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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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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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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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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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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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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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We live as we dream – alone.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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