Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRADKisses are the remnants of paradise.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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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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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 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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