We live as we dream – alone.
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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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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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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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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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