As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
JOSEPH CONRADThe human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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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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