Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
JOSEPH CONRADNever test another man by your own weakness.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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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 don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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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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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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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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