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The quotations of

Joseph Conrad

Polish-British writer

1857–1924

33 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Truth & Lies and Money.

The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.
Victory: An Island Tale (1915), part I, Ch. 1
- Business
- Money
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
Nostromo (1904), Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 9
- Money
To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.
Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIn context
- Money
- Morality

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