In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
JOSEPH CONRADIn order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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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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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Never test another man by your own weakness.
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I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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