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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All a man can betray is his conscience.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be...

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be...

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...

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of...

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of...

The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of...

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its...

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its...

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an...

There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an...

The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the...

The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the...

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...

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by...

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by...

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...

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back...

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back...

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before,...

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before,...

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the...

Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the...

My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great,...

My ambition is not to be just a good fighter. I want to be great,...

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks...

It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks...

When you reach the top, keep climbing.

When you reach the top, keep climbing.