The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
JOSEPH CONRADThere is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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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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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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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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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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It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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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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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
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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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Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
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That’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
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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 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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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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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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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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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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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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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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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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