But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
JOSEPH CONRADIt occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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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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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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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