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.
JOSEPH CONRADMy 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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