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.
JOSEPH CONRADThat’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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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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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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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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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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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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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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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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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