It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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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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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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