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the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future
Joseph Conrad
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Joseph Conrad
Age: 66 †
Born: 1857
Born: December 3
Died: 1924
Died: August 3
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Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski
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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.
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A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
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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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The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.
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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more
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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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A fool has more ideas than a wise man can foresee.
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It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy beetle crawled on - which was just what you wanted it to do.
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There is a kind way of assisting our fellow-creatures which is enough to break their hearts while it saves their outer envelope.
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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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For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.
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Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
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The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line of the lip while, no matter how close he shaved, fiery metallic gleams passed, when he moved his head, over the surface of his cheeks.
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All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.
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It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
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The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom to that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition-and therefore, more permanently enduring. He speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives to our sense of pity, and beauty and pain.
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All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality .
Joseph Conrad
Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from the undisturbed bottom of ooze. For it is a gale of wind that makes the sea look old.
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A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.
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