Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
JOSEPH CONRADI slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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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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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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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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