Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
JOSEPH CONRADFollow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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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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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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