All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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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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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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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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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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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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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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