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Human Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
- 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…
- Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.
- I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.
- The atmosphere of officialdom would kill anything that breathes the air of human endeavour, would extinguish hope and fear alike in the supremacy of paper…
- It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape…
- For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in…
- The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
- To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
- For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been…
- For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end.
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- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong