A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
JOSEPH CONRADYou know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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 take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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