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> [“Haven´t you heard of the duel going on ever since 1801?" - The Duel”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/haven-t-you-heard-of-the-duel-going-on-ever-since-1801-the-duel/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

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> [“A duel, whether regarded as a ceremony in the cult of honour, or even when reduced in its moral essence to a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/a-duel-whether-regarded-as-a-ceremony-in-the-cult-of-honour-or-even/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

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> [“Napoleon I., whose career had the quality of a duel against the whole of Europe, disliked duelling between the officers of his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/napoleon-i-whose-career-had-the-quality-of-a-duel-against-the-whole/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

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## More by Joseph Conrad

> [“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/hunters-for-gold-or-pursuers-of-fame-they-all-had-gone-out-on-that/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

> [The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/the-good-author-is-he-who-contemplates-without-marked-joy-or/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

> [“Let the earth and the sea each have its own.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/let-the-earth-and-the-sea-each-have-its-own/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

> [He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/he-hated-all-this-and-somehow-he-couldn-t-get-away/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

> [“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/a-fool-what-with-sheer-fright-and-fine-sentiments-is-always-safe/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

> [“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/the-mind-of-man-is-capable-of-anything-because-everything-is-in-it/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

> [Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/few-men-realize-that-their-life-the-very-essence-of-their-character/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

> [“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/perhaps-on-some-quiet-night-the-tremor-of-far-off-drums-sinking/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

> [“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/all-that-mysterious-life-of-the-wilderness-that-stirs-in-the-forest/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

> [“The fascination of the abomination—you know.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/the-fascination-of-the-abomination-you-know/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

> [It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/it-s-only-those-who-do-nothing-that-make-no-mistakes-i-suppose/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

> [“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/thieving-was-not-a-sheer-absurdity-it-was-a-form-of-human-industry/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

> [I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/i-found-myself-back-in-the-sepulchral-city-resenting-the-sight-of/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

> [Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/society-was-calling-to-its-accomplished-child-to-come-to-be-taken/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

> [I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-conrad/i-was-constantly-watching-myself-my-secret-self-as-dependent-on-my/)

[Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-conrad/)

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