A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
JOSEPH CONRADWe can never cease to be ourselves.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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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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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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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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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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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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