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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

Joseph Conrad

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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Darkness Earth Live Long Old Past
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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Bilnd Faith Fear Mystery Soul Struggle
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Cure Live Question
I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
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Legs Mindset Myself Road
All a man can betray is his conscience.
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Betrayal Conscience Himself Rule
Going home must be like going to render an account.
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Account Home Journey
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Beyond Carry Move Normal Order Ourselves
I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
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Books Friendship Leaving Old Pocket Solid
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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Death Fall In Love Fundamental Love Separate Talk Truth
We live as we dream – alone.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Alone Dreams Live One Liner
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Carry Fools Man Time Wisdom
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Audacity Belief Character Essence Expression Life Man Safety Surround
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Myself Power Right Word World
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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Eyes Lost Lying See Truth Wind Writing
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Achievement Feeling Myself Power See Try Word Writing Yourself
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.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Light Moon Mystery Passionate Soul

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

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