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Which Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- 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…
- All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
- History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the…
- Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from…
- The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves,…
- I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for…
- As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
- 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…
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