The conquest of the earth… is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only… not a sentimental pretense but an idea.

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The conquest of the earth… is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only… not a sentimental pretense but an idea.

-- Joseph Conrad

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For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

-- Joseph Conrad

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The conquest of the earth… is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only… not a sentimental pretense but an idea. –

-- Joseph Conrad

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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting for them on this earth.

-- Joseph Conrad

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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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