All Joseph Conrad Quotes
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
Joseph Conrad
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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
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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
Joseph Conrad
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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Joseph Conrad
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
Joseph Conrad
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A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Joseph Conrad
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Joseph Conrad
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As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
Joseph Conrad
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