The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face 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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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