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Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Famous Joseph Conrad Quotations
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English novelist (born in Poland) noted for sea stories and for his narrative technique (1857-1924)
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- Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of illusions. Joseph Conrad »
- All a man can betray is his conscience. Joseph Conrad »
- 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 »
- Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. Joseph Conrad »
- How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat Joseph Conrad »
- 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. Joseph Conrad »
- I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. Joseph Conrad »
- Illusory joy is often worth more than genuine sorrow. Joseph Conrad »
- It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. Joseph Conrad »
- The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad »
- 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. Joseph Conrad »
- The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. Joseph Conrad »
- The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds. Joseph Conrad »
- Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. Joseph Conrad »
- Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality. Joseph Conrad »
- You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. Joseph Conrad »
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