A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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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 have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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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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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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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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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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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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