Joseph Conrad Quotes about Ambition

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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

Ambition, Feet, Literature

Some Reminiscences (1912; in USA entitled "A Personal Record") p. 19

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to the truth, and our persistent leanings to error. But most of all they resemble us in their precious hold on life.

Joseph Conrad

Book, Ambition, Men

1905 'Books'.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.

Joseph Conrad

Hurt, Ambition, Intellectual

Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1118, e-artnow

Joseph Conrad Quotes about Ambition

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