Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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