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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

Joseph Conrad

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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Achievement Feeling Myself Power See Try Word Writing Yourself
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Art Bird Destroy History Repeat Reproduction Song Wild World
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Art Belief Escape Knowledge Man Quite Shadow Understand
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 CONRAD

Earth Light Live Old Run
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Afraid Bliss Yourself
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Achievement Build Rule
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Art Life Long Short Success
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Carry Fools Man Time Wisdom
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Luxury Necessary Protection
All a man can betray is his conscience.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Betrayal Conscience Himself Rule
God is for men, and religion for women.
JOSEPH CONRAD

God Man One Liner Religion Woman
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Enough Heart Human World
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Cure Live Question
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Action Myself Silence Talk
Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Kiss One Liner Paradise
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 CONRAD

Day Easy Fall Quick Sea Wake Up

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