The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
JOSEPH CONRADWe live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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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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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.
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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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