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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.
Written by Joseph Conrad
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
Written by Joseph Conrad
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Written by Joseph Conrad
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Written by Joseph Conrad
You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
Written by Joseph Conrad
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Written by Joseph Conrad
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Written by Joseph Conrad
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.
Written by Joseph Conrad
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.
Written by Joseph Conrad
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
Written by Joseph Conrad
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
Written by Joseph Conrad
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.
Written by Joseph Conrad
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.
Written by Joseph Conrad
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Written by Joseph Conrad
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Written by Joseph Conrad
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
Written by Joseph Conrad
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
Written by Joseph Conrad
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Written by Joseph Conrad
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.
Written by Joseph Conrad
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
Written by Joseph Conrad
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.
Written by Joseph Conrad
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Written by Joseph Conrad
Going home must be like going to render an account.
Written by Joseph Conrad
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.
Written by Joseph Conrad
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.
Written by Joseph Conrad
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
Written by Joseph Conrad
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.
Written by Joseph Conrad
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.
Written by Joseph Conrad
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.
Written by Joseph Conrad
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
Written by Joseph Conrad

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