Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
All one's work might have been better done; but this is a sort of reflection a worker must put aside courageously if… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I have been called romantic. Well, that can't be helped. But stay. I seem to remember that I have been called a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I do not know whether I have been a good seaman, but I know I have been a very faithful one. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and… — 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
