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

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Source : 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

Joseph Conrad

#Lying Quotes #Writing Quotes #Eye Quotes

“My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.”
“I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.”
“That folly of old age which is called dotage is peculiar to silly old men, not to age itself.”
“Stupid, fragile mortals.”
“I'm starting to get older, and began to think about mortality a little more. My mother died in 2003 and that was a big shock. When your parents start to die off, that's going to be a revelation. So for me, this album - although it might sound quite cheery - is really talking about death.”
“It will undoubtedly happen, that the enemy will make the attempt, today, tomorrow or the next day, at some time, to break into this fortress of Europe at one point or another. That will undoubtedly be the case.”
“If you have a purpose in which you can believe, there's no end to the amount of things you can accomplish.”
“You may be assured that we won't ever let your words die. Like the words of our Master, Jesus Christ, they will live in our minds and our hearts and in the souls of black men and white men, brown men and yellow men as long as time shall last.”

Source : Ralph Abernathy (1989). “And the walls came tumbling down: an autobiography”, Harpercollins

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