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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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We live as we dream – alone.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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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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