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Quote by Joseph Conrad
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has p

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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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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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life. – Joseph Conrad

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What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish. – W. H. Auden

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I was the hero of the young insurgent working class art movement. – Elia Kazan

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In art, scandal is a false narrative, a smoke screen that camouflages rather than reveals. When we dont know what were seeing, we overreact. – Jerry Saltz

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I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. – Henry Adams

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