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Letter "J" » Joseph Conrad Quotes
«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.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
«[Even geniuses get the blues.] The more I write the less substance I see in my work, ... It is tolerably awful. And I face it, I face it but the fright is growing on me. My fortitude is shaken by the view of the monster. It does not move; its eyes are baleful; it is as still as death itself -- and it will devour me. Its stare has eaten into my soul already deep, deep.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
«The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas»
«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»
«A word carries far - very far - deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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«A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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«It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.»
«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.»
«Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
«A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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