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Quote by Joseph Conrad
Only in mens imagination does every truth find an effective and un

Only in mens imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. – Joseph Conrad

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This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. – Joseph Conrad

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Butterflies
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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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respect
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The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab. – Joseph Conrad

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Weather
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The strange power of art is sometimes it can show that what people have in common is more urgent than what differentiates them. It seems to me its something that theatre can do, but its rare; its very rare. – John Berger

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Art

Art usually only makes the news in America when the subject is money. – Jerry Saltz

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Art

Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art. – Frederic Chopin

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Art

For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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Art

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The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society. – Paul Wellstone

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Society

I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever youre at and youll feel and experience something new and different each time you read it. – Josh Radnor

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Experience

There may be fairies at the bottom of the garden. There is no evidence for it, but you cant prove that there arent any, so shouldnt we be agnostic with respect to fairies? – Richard Dawkins

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respect

There is more to life than increasing its speed. – Mohandas K. Gandhi

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Society