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Quote by Joseph Conrad
It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable a

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

Other quotes by Joseph Conrad

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life. – Joseph Conrad

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Hope
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Joseph Conrad
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. – Joseph Conrad

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Halloween
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Joseph Conrad
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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

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Loyalty
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Disillusion is a natural stage that follows the holding of an illusion. – Susan Shaughnessy

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Illusion

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. – Yasutani Roshi

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Illusion

For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities –a willing movement of a mans soul with the larger sweep of the worlds forces –a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life. – George Eliot

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Illusion

A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Illusion

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God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease. – Frank Knox

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