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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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An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
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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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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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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 very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days in all the beautiful continuity of hope which knows no pauses and no introspection.
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Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
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The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
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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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I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
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... it was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
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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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Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
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In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.
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Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
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I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one.
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His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear.
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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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