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15 quotesA caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
Humor
Joseph Conrad
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
Work
Joseph Conrad
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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
Secrets
Joseph Conrad
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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.
Critics and Criticism
Joseph Conrad
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Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Courage
Joseph Conrad
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
Home
Joseph Conrad
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
Gossip
Joseph Conrad
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It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
Wine
Joseph Conrad
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
Illusion
Joseph Conrad
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Sea
Joseph Conrad
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
Army and Navy
Joseph Conrad
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
Memory
Joseph Conrad
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What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
Peace
Joseph Conrad
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
Words
Joseph Conrad
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
Enemies
Joseph Conrad
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun