God is for men, and religion for women.
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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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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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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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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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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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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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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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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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