You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
JOSEPH CONRADI take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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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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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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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