Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
JOSEPH CONRADThe mind of man is capable of anything.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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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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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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