I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
JOSEPH CONRADBeing a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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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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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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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