God is for men, and religion for women.
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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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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