I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
JOSEPH CONRADMy task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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