Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
JOSEPH CONRADThe 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.
More Joseph Conrad Quotes
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Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Kisses are the remnants of paradise.
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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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Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
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God is for men, and religion for women.
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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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Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
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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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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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It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
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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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It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
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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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But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
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