Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
JOSEPH CONRADGive me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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