Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
JOSEPH CONRADAll creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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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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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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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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