Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
JOSEPH CONRADFollow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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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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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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