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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. Joseph Conrad

Task, Women, Woman

Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. Joseph Conrad

Thought, Flattering, Friend

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad

Alone, Wickedness, Necessary

Going home must be like going to render an account. Joseph Conrad

Going Home, Going, Like

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Joseph Conrad

Alone, Some, Terror

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear. Joseph Conrad

Dreams, Perhaps, Dream

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. Joseph Conrad

Always, Through, Face

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

Warm, World, Achievements

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

Country, Sweetheart, Bond

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. Joseph Conrad

Undeniable, Art, Existence

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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. Joseph Conrad

Faithfulness, Been, Display

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

Wins, Prejudices, Mostly

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. Joseph Conrad

Nature, Which, Strength

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. Joseph Conrad

Caricature, Face, Truth

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

Languages, More, Words

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness. Joseph Conrad

Never, Most, Accomplice

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

Allow, Carried, Normal

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. Joseph Conrad

Communication, Through, Very

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. Joseph Conrad

Everybody, Like, Claims

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. Joseph Conrad

Which, Song, Repeats

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

Informed, Love, Which

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. Joseph Conrad

Enticing, More, Nothing

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

Nature, Still, Will

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

Human Being, Made, Clear

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

Issue, Artist, Expedient

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. Joseph Conrad

Known, Well Known, Foes

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