It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull

Quote by Joseph Conrad

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For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have...

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have...

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is...

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is...

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory

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

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

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact...

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact...

All a man can betray is his conscience.

All a man can betray is his conscience.

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...

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,...

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

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?...

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the...

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the...

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice...

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice...

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but...

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but...

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those...

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those...

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women...

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women...

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

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