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 CONRADHe 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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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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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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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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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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