Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
JOSEPH CONRADThat’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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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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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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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