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Nothing Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
- You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners…
- One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign…
- Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.
- I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may…
- They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident…
- I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and…
- It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
- ...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence...
- I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with…
- There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
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