I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
JOSEPH CONRADIn order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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