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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.

Joseph Conrad

Never test another man by your own weakness.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Judgement Man Weakness Yourself
God is for men, and religion for women.
JOSEPH CONRAD

God Man One Liner Religion Woman
One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Believe Exploration Ocean Oneself Particle Truth
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Carry Deal Destruction Fly Space Word
Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Deep Dreams Fear Life One Liner
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Betrayal Desperate Explanation Human Love Nature Possible Time
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Myself Power Right Word World
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Cruelty Discover Greatness Greedy History Occasion
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Charm Life Sea
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Extraordinary Eyes Life Support Thinking
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Acceptance Discover Patience Right Understand
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Art Belief Escape Knowledge Man Quite Shadow Understand
I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Discover Myself Work
Going home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Account Home Journey
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Enough Heart Human World
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Enjoyment Reality Talk
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Conscience Kind Man Nature Tragedy Victim
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Carry Fools Man Time Wisdom
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Believe Experience Luck Man Mark
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Action Myself Silence Talk
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Aspiration Clear Existence Human Path Temper
That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Death Fall In Love Fundamental Love Separate Talk Truth
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Death Excitement Imagination Yourself
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Achievement Greatness Yourself
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Goal Man Myself Peace
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Audacity Belief Character Essence Expression Life Man Safety Surround
You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Clear Integrity Man Moral Responsibility Sound

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