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.
JOSEPH CONRADThe human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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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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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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