Mind Quote by Joseph Conrad

“The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future” quote by Joseph Conrad — Download Open image

“The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future”

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The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.

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“Let the earth and the sea each have its own.”

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He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.

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“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.”

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“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 all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour, rage-who can tell?-but truth-truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder-the man know, and can look on without a wink. But he must at…

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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief…

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“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -…

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“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.”

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“The fascination of the abomination—you know.”

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It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

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“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world; it was work undertaken for the same reason as the work in potteries, in coal mines, in fields, in tool-grinding shops. It was labour, whose practical difference from the other forms of labour consisted in the…

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