To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
JOSEPH CONRADThe sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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