Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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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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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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