If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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