Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
JOSEPH CONRADA man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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