Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
JOSEPH CONRADWho knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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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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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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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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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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!
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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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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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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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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