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.
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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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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