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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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of ones enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with ones friends. – Joseph Conrad

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Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. – Joseph Conrad

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Faith
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The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land. – Joseph Conrad

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Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. – Stephen Sondheim

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The forties, seventies, and the nineties, when money was scarce, were great periods, when the art world retracted but it was also reborn. – Jerry Saltz

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Art is anything you can get away with. – Marshall McLuhan

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Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization. – Lincoln Steffens

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I travel abroad constantly on book promotion and research, and the Internet is invaluable to me for accessing U.K. news in places such as America, which most of the time hasnt heard of England. – Peter James

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Govern a family as you would cook a small fish — very gently. – Chinese Proverb

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