Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
JOSEPH CONRADI take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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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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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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