“The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.”
— Joseph Conrad
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“A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.”
— Joseph Conrad
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“To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.”
— Joseph Conrad
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“Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.”
— 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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“The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.”
— Joseph Conrad
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“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.”
— Joseph Conrad
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“Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.”
— Joseph Conrad
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“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.”
— Joseph Conrad
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“The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.”
— Joseph Conrad
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“He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.”
— Joseph Conrad
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