Joseph Conrad Quotes (page 2)
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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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I can`t tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make despair pause. For in truth we who are creatures of impulse are creatures of despair.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
