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.
JOSEPH CONRADI take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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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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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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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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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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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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