All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
JOSEPH CONRADKisses are the remnants of paradise.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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