Who 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.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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