Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
JOSEPH CONRADThe 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Nowhere 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.
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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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