Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
JOSEPH CONRADTo be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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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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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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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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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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