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Joseph Conrad15 quotes

There is a weird power in a spoken word... And a word carries far—very far—deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. — Joseph Conrad · 1900 One writes only half the book; the other half is with the reader. — Joseph Conrad · 1897 I don't like work—no man does—but I like what is in the work—the chance to find yourself. Your own reality—for yourself, not for others—what no other man can ever know. — Joseph Conrad · 1899 My task... To make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything. — Joseph Conrad · 1897 My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything. — Joseph Conrad · 1897 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. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad. — Joseph Conrad · 1911 All 15 quotes →

Leon Trotsky5 quotes

You are pitiful isolated individuals; you are bankrupts; your role is played out. Go where you belong from now on-into the dustbin of history! — Leon Trotsky · 1933 A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified. — Leon Trotsky · 1938 Where force is necessary, there it must be applied boldly, decisively and completely. But one must know the limitations of force; one must know when to blend force with a maneuver, a blow with an agreement. — Leon Trotsky · 1932 Art, it is said, is not a mirror, but a hammer: it does not reflect, it shapes. — Leon Trotsky · 1924 It was the supreme expression of the mediocrity of the apparatus that Stalin himself rose to his position. — Leon Trotsky · 1930

Bion of Borysthenes3 quotes

Though boys throw stones at frogs in sport, the frogs do not die in sport, but in earnest. — Bion of Borysthenes · 100 Old age is the harbor of all ills. — Bion of Borysthenes · 240 He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. — Bion of Borysthenes

Nikolai Gogol2 quotes

As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don't leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards! — Nikolai Gogol · 1842 A land that does not like doing things by halves. — Nikolai Gogol · 1842

Stanislaw Lec2 quotes

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. — Stanislaw Lec · 1968 Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? — Stanislaw Lec · 1957

Aharon Appelfeld1 quote

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it has also become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. — Aharon Appelfeld · 1986

Isaac Babel1 quote

Your language becomes clear and strong, not when you can no longer add a sentence, but when you can no longer take away from it. — Isaac Babel · 1940

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch1 quote

Through his passion nature has given man into woman's hands, and the woman who does not know how to make him her subject, her slave, her toy, and how to betray him with a smile in the end is not wise. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch · 1870

Zbigniew Herbert1 quote

The pebble is a perfect creature equal to itself mindful of its limits filled exactly with a pebbly meaning — Zbigniew Herbert · 1966