Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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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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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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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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.
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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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