Polish - Novelist | December 3, 1857 - August 3, 1924
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
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.
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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
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You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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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.
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An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
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As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
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It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
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