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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

Joseph Conrad

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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Darkness Earth Live Long Old Past
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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Live Memories Passion Pretend Truth
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Achievement Feeling Myself Power See Try Word Writing Yourself
Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Accident Strength Weakness Yourself
Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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Day Easy Fall Quick Sea Wake Up
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Carry Fools Man Time Wisdom
I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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Books Friendship Leaving Old Pocket Solid
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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Argument Himself Power Right Trust World
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Creation Cruelty Ethics Mad Universe View
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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Art Creative Magic Surprise
We live as we dream – alone.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Alone Dreams Live One Liner
I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Discover Myself Work
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Adventure Romance Spirit Task
I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Death Excitement Imagination Yourself
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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Betrayal Desperate Explanation Human Love Nature Possible Time
To 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.
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Achievement Affair Busy Doubt Experience Fear Material Reflection

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

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