History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
JOSEPH CONRADFollow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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 can never cease to be ourselves.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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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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