In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
JOSEPH CONRADFollow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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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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