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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.”

Ifs Men Life Ends Whole Happens Life Is Literature Easy Hours Empty Forgotten Dinner Pleasant Strife Here And There Life Is Like Fables Cigar Indolence Smoking Cigars

Book:Lord Jim

Source: Lord Jim

“Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.”

Action Literature Enemy Illusion Flattering

Author:Joseph Conrad

“In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.”

Moving Order Literature Normal Bounds Sensibility Carried Away

Book:The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.”

Literature Feet Mankind Ambition Misery Climbs My Ambition Credulity

Author:Joseph Conrad

“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.”

World Art Song Literature History Gone Special Bird Destroyed Crafts Repeats Passed Away Repeating History History Repeats Itself Wild Birds

Book:Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“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.”

Literature Consciousness Quality Known Power Sea Inequality Generosity Endurance Display Faithfulness Irresponsible Manly

Book:The Mirror of the Sea

Source: The Mirror of the Sea

“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.”

May Literature Nature Leader Psychology Movement Revolution Intelligent Victim Noble Devoted Humane Passing Away Unselfish Revolutionary Leaders

Author:Joseph Conrad

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.”

Looks Mean Different Earth Literature Politics Peace Darkness Too Much Racism Noses Imperialism Conquest Racial Discrimination Complexion Heart Of Darkness Pretty Things Discrimination And Racism

Author:Joseph Conrad

“It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.”

World Literature Politics Clear Achievement Blessed Warm Accomplished Fog Rules Great Achievement Rulership

Author:Joseph Conrad

“A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.”

People Ifs Men Love Trying Dream Reality Fall Literature Born Air Sea Climbs Endeavor Hiking

Author:Joseph Conrad

“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.”

Men Action Political Passion Literature Winning Prejudice Consistent Outlook

Book:A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences

Source: A Personal Record: Some Reminiscences

“Going home must be like going to render an account.”

Home Literature Accounts Coming Home Going Home Home Home

Book:Lord Jim

Source: Lord Jim

“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.”

Knows Men Inspirational Reality Literature Work Chance Being Yourself Finding Yourself Listen To Yourself

Author:Joseph Conrad

“A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.”

Men Love Real Reason Life Is Literature Natural Hair Real Life Real Love Natural Love

Author:Joseph Conrad

“A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.”

Doe Use Literature Sea Modern Ships Highways Exploits

Book:The Mirror of the Sea

Source: The Mirror of the Sea

“As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.”

Knows Literature Women Fine Honor Inheritance

Book:Chance

Source: Chance

“Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.”

Soul Literature Forget Divine Resignation

Book:Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.”

May Government Literature Nations Paid Coins

Book:Under Western Eyes

Source: Under Western Eyes

“To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.”

Humans Made Literature Human Beings Existence Path Clear Enlightenment Planning Aspiration

Book:Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles

Source: Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles

“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.”

Feelings Spirituality Literature Love Is Impossible Conscious Mysticism Mystic Resignation Detached Resigning

Book:Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“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.”

Men Matter Literature Ability Business Quality Greatness Tools Great Men

Book:Lord Jim

Source: Lord Jim

“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.”

Men Humans Has Beens Said Certain Song Literature Sea Objects Prose Friendly Shore Celebration Restlessness Accomplices

Book:Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

Source: Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)

“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.”

Men Life Writing Doe Art Literature Imagination Existence Fantasy Masters Supreme Invention My Imagination

Author:Joseph Conrad

“A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.”

Men Action Literature Sides Secret Secrecy Keeping Secrets

Book:Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20+ Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs: Including Classics like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Duel, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes

Source: Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20+ Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs: Including Classics like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Duel, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes

“Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.”

I Can Hands Literature Enemy Promise Sincerity Modest Praiseworthy

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Conrad (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Conrad (Illustrated)

“You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.”

Literature Sleep Existence Eating Breathe Waking Precarious Hippo

Book:Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

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