Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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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 human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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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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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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