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.
JOSEPH CONRADReality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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