All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
JOSEPH CONRADEverything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
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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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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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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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I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
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The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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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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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 live as we dream – alone.
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You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
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