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Own Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all…
- Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise…
- You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
- I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for…
- Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever…
- It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
- Never test another man by your own weakness.
- 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…
- Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for…
- I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go
- I don't like work - no man does - but I like what's in the work: the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -…
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