Joseph Conrad quotes

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. (Joseph Conrad)
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. View quote
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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. View quote
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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. View quote
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. View quote
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. View quote
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Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. View quote
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An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. View quote
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade, since it consists pricipally of dealing with men. View quote
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. View quote
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You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as his friends. (Joseph Conrad)
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. View quote
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Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. View quote
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. View quote
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A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. View quote
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. View quote
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It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. View quote
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. View quote
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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. View quote
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The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. View quote
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Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. (Joseph Conrad)
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them. View quote
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