Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
JOSEPH CONRADThere is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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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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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’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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