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Quotes by Joseph Conrad

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  • We live as we dream - alone.
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  • Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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  • 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.
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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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  • What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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  • The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.
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  • Strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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  • The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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  • I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.
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  • All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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  • All a man can betray is his conscience.
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  • Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
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