I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
JOSEPH CONRADGod is for men, and religion for women.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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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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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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