A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRADBut 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!
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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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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