You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
JOSEPH CONRADYou shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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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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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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