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Quotes by Joseph Conrad

"The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history."
By Joseph Conrad
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"The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history."
By Joseph Conrad
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"What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it."
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"I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace."
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"For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort."
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"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men."
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"We live, as we dream, alone"
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"They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything."
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"Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows."
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"All a man can betray is his conscience."
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"All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind."
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"It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth."
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"Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life."
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"I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others"
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"How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spect"
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"The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage."
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"Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions."
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"All a man can betray is his conscience."
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"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
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"Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow."
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"Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality."
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"You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends."
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"The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future."
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"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent"
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"The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds."
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