All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
JOSEPH CONRAD
Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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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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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We live as we dream – alone.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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