All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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 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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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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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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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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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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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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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