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.
JOSEPH CONRADI have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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 writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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