A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
JOSEPH CONRADFollow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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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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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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The 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.
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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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