I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
JOSEPH CONRADThe conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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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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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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