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  • The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
    - Joseph Conrad
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
    - Joseph Conrad
  • You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
    - Joseph Conrad
  • A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
    - Joseph Conrad
  • 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
  • The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
    - Joseph Conrad
  • You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
    - Joseph Conrad
  • 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
  • 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.
    - Joseph Conrad
  • 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.
    - 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.
    - Joseph Conrad