All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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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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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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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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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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