A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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The 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.
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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!
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