We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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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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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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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