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The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.

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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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Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.
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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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I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.
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The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.
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I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.
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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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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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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.
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Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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We can never cease to be ourselves.
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The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.
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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 .
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A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.
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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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Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.
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A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
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Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.
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