But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
JOSEPH CONRADI am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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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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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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