Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“but heavens! how that man could talk! He electrified large meetings. He had faith—don't you see?—he had the faith. He could get… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I didn't know what he was playing up to—if he was playing up to anything at all—and I suspect he did not… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The belief in a super natural sources of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary.à Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have… — 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
“Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns--and… — 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
“O youth! The strenght of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! (...) I think of her with pleasure, with… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“All my moral and intellectual being is penetrated by an invincible conviction that whatever falls under the dominion of our senses must… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Faith is a myth and beliefs shift like mists on the shore; thoughts vanish; words, once pronounced, die; and the memory of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“oh youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it!” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I felt suddenly that 'this sort of thing' would kill me. The definition of the cause was vague, but the thought itself… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“No fear can stand up to hunger, no patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger is; and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“There too he had been treated with revolting injustice. His struggles, his privations,his hard work to raise himself in the social scale,… — 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
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