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Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

Joseph Conrad

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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
Author
Autobiographer
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Berdichev
Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
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Success
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Writing
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But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.
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It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.
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The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
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Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.
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Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.
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I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me.
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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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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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The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation
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Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
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I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced
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One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.
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I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.
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Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.
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All a man can betray is his conscience.
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For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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