To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
JOSEPH CONRAD
In 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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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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We live as we dream – alone.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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