We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
JOSEPH CONRAD
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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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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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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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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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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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