The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
JOSEPH CONRADFollow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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.
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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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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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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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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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 real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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