All Joseph Conrad Quotes
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
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Nature
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You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
Joseph Conrad
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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
Joseph Conrad
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Joseph Conrad
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Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
Joseph Conrad
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
Joseph Conrad
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
Joseph Conrad
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Joseph Conrad
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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
Joseph Conrad
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Joseph Conrad
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A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
Joseph Conrad
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Joseph Conrad
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Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.
Joseph Conrad
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