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Going home must be like going to render an account.
Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
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Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
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It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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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We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.
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I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make dspair pause. For in truth, we who are creatures of impulse, are creatures of despair.
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That's why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.
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Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.
Joseph Conrad
