The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRADI have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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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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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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