Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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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 word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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