The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRADI 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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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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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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