"It is my belief no man ever understands……" — Joseph Conrad
"It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge."
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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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