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A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

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
Lying, Writing, Eye
Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20+ Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs: Including Classics like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Duel, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.4130, e-artnow

Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Joseph Conrad
Art, Writing, Imagination
Some Reminiscences ch. 1 (1912)

Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.

Joseph Conrad
Art, Writing, Life Is Short
Joseph Conrad (1962). “The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'”, p.6, Gottfried & Fritz

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.

Joseph Conrad
Writing, Trying, Tasks
The Nigger of the Narcissus preface (1897)

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Joseph Conrad
Writing, Reality, Speech
1911 Under Western Eyes, prologue.

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

Joseph Conrad
Writing, Men, Fellow Man

Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.

Joseph Conrad
Wall, Writing, Mud

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
Life, Art, Writing
Some Reminiscences ch. 1 (1912)

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