Polish - Novelist | December 3, 1857 - August 3, 1924
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
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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.
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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
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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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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.
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