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Inspirational Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
- Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
- I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
- When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.
- It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
- Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.
- God is for men, and religion for women.
- As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
- All a man can betray is his conscience.
- Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.
- To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
- I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more
- My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything.
- Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.
- The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Going home must be like going to render an account.
- Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
- Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
- We live as we dream--alone....
- He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him.…
- The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
- He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.
- It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
- She feared the unknown as we all do, and her ignorance made the unknown infinitely vast.
- I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.
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- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento