They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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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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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
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He struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
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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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As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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