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.
JOSEPH CONRADThere is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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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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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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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 human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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 have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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