You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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 certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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