Joseph Conrad
In Poland born English writer
Lived from: 1857 - 1924
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 3 december 1857 Died: 3 august 1924
Quotes 21 till 40 of 55.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.
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It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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 very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves... have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all.
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It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
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It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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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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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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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
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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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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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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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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.
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The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.
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The mind of man is capable of anything - because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
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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 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 sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.
The sacred agent (1907)― Joseph Conrad
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