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.
JOSEPH CONRADI like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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All roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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