All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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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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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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The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
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The mind of man is capable of anything.
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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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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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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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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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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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The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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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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