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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.

Joseph Conrad

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Art Creative Magic Surprise
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Beyond Carry Move Normal Order Ourselves
I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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Afraid History Inspirational Myself Work Yourself
The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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Confession Courage Endurance Faith Generation Power Quality Sea Touch Truth
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Fiction One Liner Reality
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Intellectual Kind Man Measurement Misery Universal
As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Achievement Build Rule
Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Account Home Journey
All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Desire Heart Leadership Oneself Road
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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Betrayal Desperate Explanation Human Love Nature Possible Time
Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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Day Easy Fall Quick Sea Wake Up
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Carry Fools Man Time Wisdom
I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Books Friendship Leaving Old Pocket Solid
Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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Illusion Lonely Memories Misery Naked Terrorism True Word
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Art Imagination Invention Life Master
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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Death Forget Hate Mortal Myself Simplicity World

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.

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