Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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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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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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