To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
JOSEPH CONRADAll roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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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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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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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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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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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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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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Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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