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.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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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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It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
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I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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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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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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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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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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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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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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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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