The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
JOSEPH CONRADA word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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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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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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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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