Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
JOSEPH CONRAD
It’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 scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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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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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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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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