You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The blight of futility that lies in wait for men's speeches had fallen upon our conversation and made it a thing of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the… — 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
The end (goal) of art is to figure the hidden meaning of things and not their appearance; for in this profound 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
