All Joseph Conrad Quotes
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.
Joseph Conrad
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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
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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.
Joseph Conrad
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Joseph Conrad
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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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 narrowness of his outlook.
Joseph Conrad
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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
Joseph Conrad
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
Joseph Conrad
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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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An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
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