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.
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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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 the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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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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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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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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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