Joseph Conrad

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Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

Joseph Conrad

alone

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

Joseph Conrad

alone

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

art

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.

Joseph Conrad

art

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

Joseph Conrad

art

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

courage

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Joseph Conrad

courage

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Joseph Conrad

dreams

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

faith

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

Joseph Conrad

fear

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