The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
JOSEPH CONRADWho 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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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’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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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.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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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 writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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