It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRADThe sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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