Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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