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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

Joseph Conrad

A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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End Serene Simplicity Social Soul
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Carry Fools Man Time Wisdom
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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Adventure Romance Spirit Task
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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Art Creative Magic Surprise
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Beyond Carry Move Normal Order Ourselves
It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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Mistake Myself Work
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Himself Man Work
Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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Deep Dreams Fear Life One Liner
We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Be Yourself One Liner Ourselves
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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Confession Courage Endurance Faith Generation Power Quality Sea Touch Truth
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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Devotion Human Leadership Nature Noble Revolution Selfish Victim
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Alone Belief Evil Man Necessary Quite Source Wickedness
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Interest Sympathy Writing
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Fiction One Liner Reality
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Achievement Feeling Myself Power See Try Word Writing Yourself
I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Legs Mindset Myself Road

We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

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