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You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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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. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Going home must be like going to render an account. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Joseph Conrad

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I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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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. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination. ↗

— Ellen Key

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

— Joseph Conrad

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

— Joseph Conrad

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You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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