If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
JOSEPH CONRADEverything 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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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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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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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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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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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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