I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

Quote by Joseph Conrad

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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the...

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the...

Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror?...

Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror?...

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men...

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men...

All a man can betray is his conscience

All a man can betray is his conscience

All a man can betray is his conscience.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

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

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

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into...

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into...

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but...

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but...

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a...

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a...

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But...

I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But...

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves,...

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves,...

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the...

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the...

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite...

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite...

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the...

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the...

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being...

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being...

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love...

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love...

Get beyond love and grief; exist for the good of man

Get beyond love and grief; exist for the good of man

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force....

When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force....