Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
JOSEPH CONRADA writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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