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.
JOSEPH CONRADArt is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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We live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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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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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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