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He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything?

He was just a word for me. I did not see the man in the name any more than you do. Do you see him? Do you see the story? Do you see anything?
– Joseph Conrad

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  2. The mind of man is capable of anything – because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future. – Joseph Conrad
  3. His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines. – Joseph Conrad
  4. It was a dark story. – Joseph Conrad
  5. There is a weird power in a spoken word. – Joseph Conrad
  6. What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
  7. The holy word is story, and story is the holy word. – Yann Martel
  8. O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.O Lord, Thy Word, gives me hope. O Lord, Thy Word, strengthens my spirit.O Lord, Thy Word, revive my soul. – Lailah Gifty Akita
  9. I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one’s own personality every man sets up for himself secretly. – Joseph Conrad
  10. Never test another man by your own weakness. – Joseph Conrad
  11. All a man can betray is his conscience. – Joseph Conrad
  12. She hated him and loved him, longed for him and loathed him, and cursed herself for feeling anything at all – Rick Yancey
  13. She’d found him. She’d helped him. She’d saved him. He was hers. And they’d taken him away, ripped him from her arms, literally. – Laura Kaye
  14. If you would see a man’s heart, knock him down. Then observe how he rises. If you would see his soul, do it a thousand times more. – Lance Conrad
  15. Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions. – Joseph Conrad
  16. Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men. – Joseph Conrad
  17. What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. – Joseph Conrad
  18. This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations. – Joseph Conrad
  19. Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. – Joseph Conrad
  20. But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind. – Joseph Conrad
  21. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget. – Joseph Conrad
  22. Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness. – Joseph Conrad
  23. It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing. – Joseph Conrad
  24. Even extreme grief may ultimately ventitself in violence–but more generally takes the form of apathy – Joseph Conrad
  25. We live as we dream–alone…. – Joseph Conrad
  26. She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream… – Joseph Conrad
  27. In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. – Joseph Conrad
  28. It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. – Joseph Conrad
  29. I would just as soon have abused the old village church at home for not being a cathedral. – Joseph Conrad
  30. The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing. – Joseph Conrad
  31. A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale. – Joseph Conrad
  32. And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets. – Joseph Conrad
  33. His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. – Tahereh Mafi
  34. They imprisoned Joseph to cage his abilities but God empowered him to manifest his potentials – Ikechukwu Joseph
  35. The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story. – Ursula K Le Guin
  36. It is easy to arrange the words in a story born out of a dream; for a story without a dream, a story itself is not enough. – Dejan Stojanovic
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  38. I always like the story behind the story more than the story itself. – AD Posey
  39. The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
  40. The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don’t let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams. – Unarine Ramaru

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