Quote by Joseph Conrad
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter throu

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

Other quotes by Joseph Conrad

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. – Joseph Conrad

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Art
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A mans real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. – Joseph Conrad

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respect
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It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our grieves… have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling compassion as the common inheritance of us all. – Joseph Conrad

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Fear
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A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. – John F. Kennedy

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Fear

Fear doesnt exist anywhere except in the mind. – Dale Carnegie

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Fear

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them. – Jean de La Fontaine

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Fear

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. – Bertrand Russell

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I think within Japan there is talk about how there is the need to reassess the future of the U.S.-Japan alliance. – Lee Myung-bak

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Future

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning. – William Westmoreland

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War

That’s the classical mind at work, runs fine inside but looks dingy on the surface. – Robert M. Pirsig

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