“All idealisation makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“No eloquence could have been so withering to one's belief in mankind as his final burst of sincerity.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to a few on this Earth, and whom only… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And when it is accomplished—behold!—all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile—and the return to… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“But sometimes, by the deserving and the fortunate, even that task is accomplished. And when it is accomplished— behold!— all the truth… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound truth… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It's queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there had never… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration ... and in the end coming to despise truth itself… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had gone mad. I had - for my sins, I suppose… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It was unearthly, and the men were--No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of it--this suspicion of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Charles Gould did not open his heart to her in any set speeches. He simply went on acting and thinking in her… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It’s queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never… — joseph conrad Copy Share Image
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“But what I felt most was my being a stranger to the ship; and if all the truth must be told, I… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Hunters for gold or pursuers of fame, they all had gone out on that stream, bearing the sword, and often the torch, messengers of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“Perhaps on some quiet night the tremor of far-off drums, sinking, swelling, a tremor vast, faint; a sound weird, appealing, suggestive and wild -… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“Thieving was not a sheer absurdity. It was a form of human industry, perverse indeed, but still an industry exercised in an industrious world;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
