"In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and……" — Joseph Conrad
"In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent."
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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 Continent Quotes
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one of 345 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.
— James Agee
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Africa is a continent in flames. And deep down, if we really accepted that Africans were equal to us, we…
— Bono
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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look…
— Bono
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People are increasingly frustrated that decisions taken further and further away from them mean their living standards are slashed through…
— David Cameron
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The…
— David Cameron
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What Churchill described as the twin marauders of war and tyranny have been almost entirely banished from our continent. Today,…
— David Cameron
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From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
— Winston Churchill
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The biggest challenge of public policy is to know when and how the world has changed. We are no longer…
— Richard Lamm
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Pre-season was very challenging with the African Championships on my continent. Unfortunately, I failed to qualify for the Games there.…
— Benjamin Boukpeti
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Intercession is truly universal work for the Christian. No place is closed to intercessory prayer. No continent - no nation…
— Richard Halverson
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In order to persuade Britain to pack up, to compel her to make peace, it was essential to rob her…
— Adolf Hitler
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