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• I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

  Joseph Conrad

  Finding Yourself, Chance

  Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.41, Penguin

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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.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Self, Shadow

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.73, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.

  Joseph Conrad

  Enlightenment, Literature, Path

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Complete Short Stories of Joseph Conrad (Including His Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays: Unforgettable Tales like Heart of Darkness, Point of Honor, Falk, Secret Sharer, The Return & Freya of Seven Isles”, p.1325, e-artnow

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Writing, Reality, Speech

  1911 Under Western Eyes, prologue.

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• My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see.

  Joseph Conrad

  Writing, Trying, Tasks

  The Nigger of the Narcissus preface (1897)

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• The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, World, Enough

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.302, McClure, Phillips & Company

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Writing, Life Is Short

  Joseph Conrad (1962). “The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'”, p.6, Gottfried & Fritz

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• Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moving, Giving, World

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1113, e-artnow

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

  Joseph Conrad

  Space, Flying, Bullets

  Lord Jim ch. 15 (1900)

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• Kisses are the remnants of paradise.

  Joseph Conrad

  Kissing, Paradise, Remnants

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• We can never cease to be ourselves.

  Joseph Conrad

  Cease

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Joseph Conrad The Dover Reader”, p.385, Courier Corporation

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• One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.

  Joseph Conrad

  Believe, Ocean, Floating

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Selected Letters of Joseph Conrad”, p.145, Cambridge University Press

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• Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.

  Joseph Conrad

  Reality, Sight, Usual

  Letter, 11 Aug. 1915

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• What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

  Joseph Conrad

  Victim, Conscious, Tragic

  Joseph Conrad (2011). “Joseph Conrad's Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham”, p.70, Cambridge University Press

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• In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

  Joseph Conrad

  Moving, Order, Literature

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.400, e-artnow

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• The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

  Joseph Conrad

  Peace, Mean, Racism

  Heart of Darkness ch. 1 (1902)

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• All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Creativity, Creative

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.4543, e-artnow

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• Your strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.

  Joseph Conrad

  Strength, Weakness, Accidents

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• One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.

  Joseph Conrad

  Ignorance, Past, Destiny

  Joseph Conrad (2008). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, OUP Oxford

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• The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

  Joseph Conrad

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Lord Jim”, p.166, Joseph Conrad

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• It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

  Joseph Conrad

  Mistake, Age

  Outcast of the Islands pt. 3, ch. 2 (1896)

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• God is for men, and religion for women.

  Joseph Conrad

  Women, Men, Men Women

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• Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Philosophy, Character

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Joseph Conrad The Dover Reader”, p.155, Courier Corporation

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• The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.

  Joseph Conrad

  Terrorism, Baskets, Terrorist

  The Secret Agent ch. 4 (1907)

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• The mind of man is capable of anything.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Men, Mind

  Joseph Conrad (2009). “Heart of Darkness Thrift Study Edition”, p.32, Courier Corporation

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