We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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