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.
JOSEPH CONRADEverything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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 real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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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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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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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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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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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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