In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs… — 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
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears 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
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
There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. — 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
