One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
JOSEPH CONRADThe 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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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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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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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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We live as we dream – alone.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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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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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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