Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It would have been so much in accordance with the wisdom of life, which consists in putting out of sight all the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“No influential friend would have served me better. She [the steamboat] had given me a chance to come out a bit-to find… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“We wander in our thousands over the face of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond the seas our fame,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends--- those whom we obey, and those whom we love; but even they… — 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
![“No influential friend would have served me better. She [the steamboat] had given me a chance to come out a bit-to find out what I could do. No, I don't like work. I had rather laze about and think of all the fine things that can be done. I don't like work-no man does-but I like what is in the…” quote by Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e2a/joseph-conrad-336_friendship_no-influential-friend-would-have-served_145415.jpg)
