We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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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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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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.
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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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