To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
JOSEPH CONRADGod is for men, and religion for women.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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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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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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