“The only legitimate basis of creative work lies in the courageous recognition of all the irreconcilable antagonisms that make our life so… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“To snatch in a moment of courage, from the remorseless rush of time, a passing phase of life, is only the beginning… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having… — 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
“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line...To snatch in a moment… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“They were two perfectly insignificant and incapable individuals, whose existence is only rendered possible through the high organization of civilized crowds. Few… — 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 Image
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A fool, what with sheer fright and fine sentiments, is always safe.” — 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 was there… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
