What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
JOSEPH CONRADIt’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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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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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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