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Time Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.
- It is not Justice the servant of men, but accident, hazard, Fortune-the ally of patient Time-that holds an even and scrupulous balance.
- Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation…
- A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
- To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking…
- And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment…
- The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after…
- For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn…
- I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful…
- Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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