It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
JOSEPH CONRADWords, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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