You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you.
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. - Joseph Conrad
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
- Joseph Conrad
We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully. - Joseph Conrad
We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. - Joseph Conrad
Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please. - Joseph Conrad
Happiness, happiness ... the flavor is with you-with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. - Joseph Conrad
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man c… - Joseph Conrad
I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man c…
If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything . - Joseph Conrad
If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything .
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind! - Joseph Conrad
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. - Joseph Conrad
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
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