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.
JOSEPH CONRADOne must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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