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One Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
- 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…
- 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.
- When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.
- 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…
- Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the…
- All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if he doesn't mean…
- The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to…
- Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of…
- The mysteries of a universe made of drops of fire and clods of mud do not concern us in the least. The fate of humanity…
- The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas.
- 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…
- Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which…
- One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a…
- Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
- How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its…
- Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible…
- No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle…
- It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation,…
- And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.
- One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.
- I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful…
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