God is for men, and religion for women.
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 mind of man is capable of anything.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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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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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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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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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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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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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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.
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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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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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