All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Joseph Conrad
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More quotes by Joseph Conrad
- 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.
- The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- 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.
- 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.
- Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.