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Action Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
- It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
- Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
- An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
- As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of…
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