A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
JOSEPH CONRADNowhere 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
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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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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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