All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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 can never cease to be ourselves.
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You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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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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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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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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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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It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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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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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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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 the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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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.
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