We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
JOSEPH CONRADWe can never cease to be ourselves.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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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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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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