“The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And when it is accomplished—behold!—all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile—and the return to… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it… — 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
“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
A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“They were two perfectly insignificant and incapable individuals, whose existence is only rendered possible through the high organization of civilized crowds. Few… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Like a flash of lightning between the clouds, we live in the flicker. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I felt in my heart that the further one ventures the better one understands how everything in our life is common, short,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“and Kurtz’s life was running swiftly, too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth,… — 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
