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 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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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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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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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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.
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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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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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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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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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