In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
JOSEPH CONRADImagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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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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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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