As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
JOSEPH CONRADIt’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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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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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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