We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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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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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.
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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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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