Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
JOSEPH CONRADThere is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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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What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
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Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
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If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
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We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
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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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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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Going home must be like going to render an account.
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