As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
JOSEPH CONRADEverything 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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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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It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
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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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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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