Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
JOSEPH CONRADAny work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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