#he

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#fear #kill #many #neighbours #say

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#brings #child #home #hour #like

Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#brief #challenge #failure #get #inactivity

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

#betraying #bond #conscience #country #first

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. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#begin #devoted #humane #intelligent #just

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#artist #complicated #creates #expedient #finds

My Mother is an actress, so it's always been a part of my life. ↗

— Alicia Vikander

#always #been #life #mother #my life

It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#curiously #earth #fate #good #many

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. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#conscious #detached #feelings #impossible #informed

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

— Joseph Conrad

#man #most #open #secret #side