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.
JOSEPH CONRADReality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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