Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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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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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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