# Quote — Joseph Conrad, Nostromo

> Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

- Author: [Joseph Conrad](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad.md)
- Book: [Nostromo](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joseph-conrad/nostromo.md)
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> Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralyzing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a man struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.

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> A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.

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> There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principal.

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