Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
JOSEPH CONRADThe real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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