It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so… — 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
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The hair of his face, on the contrary, carroty and flaming, resembled a growth of copper wire clipped short to the line… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth… — 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
