Joseph Conrad Short Quotes

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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

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Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.

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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.

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Running all over the sea trying to get behind the weather.

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"God for men — religions for women," he muttered sometimes.

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One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.

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You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

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It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.

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They demand facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.

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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.

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

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Facing it — always facing it — that's the way to get through.

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The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation.

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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go

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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.

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Nature - the balance of colossal forces.... Nature - the great artist.

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In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.

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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

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Nature — the balance of colossal forces.... Nature — the great artist.

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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.

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The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

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Don't you ever forget what's divine in the Russian soul—and that's resignation.

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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

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The vilest scramble for loot that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.

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A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.

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And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.

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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.

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I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced

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