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The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.

The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.
– Joseph Conrad

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  3. Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. – Joseph Conrad
  4. Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men. – Joseph Conrad
  5. What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. – Joseph Conrad
  6. It was a dark story. – Joseph Conrad
  7. This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations. – Joseph Conrad
  8. Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. – Joseph Conrad
  9. The mind of man is capable of anything. – Joseph Conrad
  10. But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind. – Joseph Conrad
  11. The mind of man is capable of anything – because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future. – Joseph Conrad
  12. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget. – Joseph Conrad
  13. Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness. – Joseph Conrad
  14. It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing. – Joseph Conrad
  15. There is a weird power in a spoken word. – Joseph Conrad
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  17. We live as we dream–alone…. – Joseph Conrad
  18. She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream… – Joseph Conrad
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  20. His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines. – Joseph Conrad
  21. It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. – Joseph Conrad
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  23. All a man can betray is his conscience. – Joseph Conrad
  24. He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything? – Joseph Conrad
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  27. And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets. – Joseph Conrad
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  29. Earth does not need you, you need the earth. To save yourself, save the earth. – Vinita Kinra
  30. The behavior of any bureaucratic organization can best be understood by assuming that it is controlled by a secret cabal of its enemies. – Robert Conquest
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  32. When deliberating, think in campaigns and not battles; in wars and notcampaigns; in ultimate conquest and not wars. – Steven Pressfield
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  39. The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages. – Roger Bacon
  40. I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest. – Ingrid Betancourt

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