All a man can betray is his conscience.
JOSEPH CONRADThere is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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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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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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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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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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