Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
JOSEPH CONRADEverything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
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I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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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’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
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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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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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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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