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.
JOSEPH CONRADMy task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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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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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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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 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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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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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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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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