Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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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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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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