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" Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. "
Joseph Conrad
Claims
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Gossip
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" Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters. "
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" To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. "
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" For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. "
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" As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. "
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" It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. "
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Fog
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" Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. "
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" To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. "
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" A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. "
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" The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. "
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Men
Evil
" Going home must be like going to render an account. "
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Going
Must
Like
" Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. "
Joseph Conrad
Facing
Always
Get
" Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. "
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Impossible
Love
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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. "
Joseph Conrad
Imagination
Life
Men
" Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. "
Joseph Conrad
Task
Women
Woman
" All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. "
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Mankind
Those
Legal
" 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
Man
Chance
Yourself
" 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. "
Joseph Conrad
Strength
Man
Nature
" History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. "
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Art
World
Special
" 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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Waiting
People
Good
" This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. "
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Dirt
Nature
Never
" 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. "
Joseph Conrad
Truth
Generosity
Courage
" It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine. "
Joseph Conrad
Wine
Strength
Through
" Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. "
Joseph Conrad
Alone
Memory
Mask
" 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. "
Joseph Conrad
Talk
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Country