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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .

Joseph Conrad

There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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Light Moon Mystery Passionate Soul
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Interest Sympathy Writing
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Art Life Long Short Success
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Enemy Friendship Greatness Word
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Art Creative Magic Surprise
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Acceptance Discover Patience Right Understand
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Himself Man Work
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Luxury Necessary Protection
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Alone Belief Evil Man Necessary Quite Source Wickedness
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Myself Power Right Word World
I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Chance Discover Reality Work Yourself
It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Mistake Myself Work
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Intellectual Kind Man Measurement Misery Universal
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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Devotion Human Leadership Nature Noble Revolution Selfish Victim
Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Judgement Man Weakness Yourself
Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Deep Dreams Fear Life One Liner

If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .

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