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I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.
— Joseph Conrad Lord Jim
Tags: remembering, picture-metaphor, moving-on-and-letting-go, moving-on, lost-friends, life-goes-on, leaving, last-sight, last-goodbye, hope, getting-over-it, final-departure, farewell

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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
Tags: man, heart, hope, life, love
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
— Joseph Conrad
Tags: belief, evil, men, alone
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
Tags: imagination, truth, art, life
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
— Joseph Conrad
Tags: wonder, fear, you, heart
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
Tags: who, always, power, trust
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