Joseph Conrad Quotes About Life
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
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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 in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
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No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone.
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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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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Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
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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.
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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.
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