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.
JOSEPH CONRADThere 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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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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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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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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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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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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