Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
JOSEPH CONRAD
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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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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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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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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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