You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
JOSEPH CONRADAll creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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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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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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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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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.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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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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