"I had no particular desire to enlighten them,……" — Joseph Conrad
"I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance."
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Joseph Conrad
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235 Quotes by Joseph Conrad
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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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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over…
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
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All men by nature desire knowledge.
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
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The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not…
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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear.
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Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
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I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated…
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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