"He has to live in the midst of……" — Joseph Conrad
"He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable."
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235 Quotes by Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad has 235 quotes on this site.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which…
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
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The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.
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Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
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The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends,…
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human,…
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a…
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Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if…
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A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
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More Detestable Quotes
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one of 60 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll…
— Charles Bukowski
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It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes…
— Stephen Charnock
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as…
— Confucius
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Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of…
— William Ralph Inge
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Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
— Charles Darwin
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The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less…
— William E. Gladstone
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Whether these characters are lovable or detestable, they're lovable or detestable in a TV way - defined by a minimal…
— Jonathan Rosenbaum
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In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness…
— Joseph Conrad
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You see, the problem with me is I'm so good even my friends think I'm doing something wrong. Flair and…
— Don King
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It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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How can it be, after all this concentrated effort and separation, how can it be that I still resemble, so…
— Gabrielle Hamilton
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