The 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.
JOSEPH CONRADA word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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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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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities 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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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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