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.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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