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.
JOSEPH CONRADTo have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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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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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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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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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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