The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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 word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community 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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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