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.

Quote by Joseph Conrad

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We live, as we dream alone

We live, as we dream alone

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

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

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity....

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity....

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...

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who...

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who...

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity....

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity....

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...

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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...

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification...

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification...

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...

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...

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as...

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as...

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

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

All a man can betray is his conscience

All a man can betray is his conscience

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few...

Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few...

All men in the abstract are just and good

All men in the abstract are just and good