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!
JOSEPH CONRADA writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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We live as we dream – alone.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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