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Joseph Conrad Quotes
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
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. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
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 endeavour to do, he drowns. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
A mans most open actions have a secret side to them. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
A mans real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
All a man can betray is his conscience. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
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 Quotes
As to honor - you know - its a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasnt theirs. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
As to honour you know its a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasnt theirs. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
Dont you forget whats divine in the Russian soul and thats resignation. - 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. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
Facing it, always facing it, thats the way to get through. Face it. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
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. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
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. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
Going home must be like going to render an account. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
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. - Joseph Conrad Quotes
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 Quotes
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 Quotes
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Face Falls Into Joke Like People Putting
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