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Letter "J" » 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.»
«All a man can betray is his conscience»
«It is respectable to have no illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull»
«I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.»
«This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still...»
«For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end»
«It's queer how out of touch with the truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Women
«The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind»
«It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility»
«How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?»
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