Joseph Conrad

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#illusions #profitable #respectable #safe

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#caricature #face #joke #putting #truth

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#enemy #flattering #friend #illusions #thought

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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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. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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