We can never cease to be ourselves.
JOSEPH CONRADFacing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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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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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 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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Everything 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.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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