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.
JOSEPH CONRADYour strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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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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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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