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.

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

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• There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten – before the end is told – even if there happens to be any end to it.

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  The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

   

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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.

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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.

   

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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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  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.

   

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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.

   

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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.

   

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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.

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  Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

   

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

   

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  It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

   

   

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  It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.

   

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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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  I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

   

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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.

   

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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 – which no other man can ever know.

   

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Joseph Conrad (82)

Birth:	3rd December, 1857
Death:	3rd August, 1924
Nationality:	Polish
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

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• 1981 - Walter Knott
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