Joseph Conrad Quotes

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• A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
• That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no…
• It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
• Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
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• The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
• Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
• The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
• It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself the…
• What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer…
• Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants to obtain a…
• A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
• In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.
• It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share…
• Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise,…
• Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
• Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
• The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a…
• I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
• A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.

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