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

The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. – Joseph Conrad

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Courage
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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. – Joseph Conrad

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Despair
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. – Joseph Conrad

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alone
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Pray look better, Sir… those things yonder are no giants, but windmills. – Miguel de Cervantes

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Illusion

Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us human beings who move much more gracefully than human beings really move. Films and books and plays show us people talking much more entertainingly than people. – Kurt Vonnegut

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Illusion

It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. – John Keats

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Illusion

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. – Bertrand Russell

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Illusion

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One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force. – David Borenstein

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Proverbs were bright shafts in the Greek and Latin quivers… – Isaac D’Israeli, “The Philosophy of Proverbs,” Curiosities of Literature,

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Quotations

Pink isnt just a color, its an attitude! – Miley Cyrus

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Not only does God play dice, but… he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen. – Stephen Hawking

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God