It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
JOSEPH CONRADIt’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face 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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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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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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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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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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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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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