Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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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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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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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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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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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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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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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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You 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.
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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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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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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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