Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
JOSEPH CONRADEverybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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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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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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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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