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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

Joseph Conrad

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
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
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
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
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Day Easy Fall Quick Sea Wake Up
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Face Hard Time Inspirational Way
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
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!
JOSEPH CONRAD

Earth Light Live Old Run
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Achievement Affair Busy Doubt Experience Fear Material Reflection
The mind of man is capable of anything.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Capability Man Mindset
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
Never test another man by your own weakness.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Judgement Man Weakness Yourself
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Light Moon Mystery Passionate Soul
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Carry Fools Man Time Wisdom
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Interest Sympathy Writing
If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
JOSEPH CONRAD

Defeat Failure Inspirational Mistake Perspective Yourself

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

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