The mind of man is capable of anything.
JOSEPH CONRADGod is for men, and religion for women.
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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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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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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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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