He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
~ Joseph Conrad
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
Going home must be like going to render an account.
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
