As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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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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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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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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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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 human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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