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 CONRADThe 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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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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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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