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
In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been… — 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
Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. 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
