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courage Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad | courage

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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Quote from Joseph Conrad | art

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Quote from Joseph Conrad | alone

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Joseph Conrad The Shadow-Line

Quote from Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-Line

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.

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Joseph Conrad Lord Jim

Quote from Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.

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Joseph Conrad

Quote from Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness

Droll thing life is — that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself — that comes too late — a crop of inextinguishable regrets.

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Joseph Conrad The Secret Agent

Quote from Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent

All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.

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