There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
JOSEPH CONRADTo have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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 live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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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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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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We live as we dream – alone.
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