“Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.”
Joseph Conrad
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“Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Imagination
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“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.”
Joseph Conrad
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“I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great desire of defeat, in a sickly atmosphere of tepid skepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Death
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“I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more–the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort–to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires–and expires, too soon, too soon–before life itself.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Youth
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“Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Art
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“How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Fear
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“Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Criticism
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“Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Courage
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“A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Work
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“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“A man’s most open actions have a secret side to them.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Secrets
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“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: General
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“What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Peace
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“Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Memory
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“There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Military
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“Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Life
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“It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Illusion
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“A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.”
Joseph Conrad
Submitted by Quonation |Category: Humor
