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.
JOSEPH CONRADNowhere 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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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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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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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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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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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