Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
JOSEPH CONRADAny work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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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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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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The 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.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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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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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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