The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
JOSEPH CONRADFacing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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