It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
JOSEPH CONRADThe question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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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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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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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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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