Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
JOSEPH CONRADThere is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Everything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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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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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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