Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
JOSEPH CONRAD
To 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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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