We live as we dream – alone.
JOSEPH CONRADIt’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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