A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
JOSEPH CONRADGod is for men, and religion for women.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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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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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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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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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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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