Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
JOSEPH CONRADFacing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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