As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
JOSEPH CONRADThe scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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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.
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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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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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