My 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.
JOSEPH CONRADYou can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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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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.
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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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