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.
JOSEPH CONRADThey 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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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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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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