We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
JOSEPH CONRADYou can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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