All Joseph Conrad Quotes
They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
Joseph Conrad
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
Joseph Conrad
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It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
Joseph Conrad
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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
Joseph Conrad
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
Joseph Conrad
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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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Love
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Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
Joseph Conrad
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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Joseph Conrad
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I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
Joseph Conrad
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
Joseph Conrad
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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
Joseph Conrad
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Joseph Conrad
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A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
Joseph Conrad
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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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