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 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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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We live as we dream – alone.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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