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
I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The sea never changes and its works, for all the talks of men, are wrapped in mystery. — 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
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
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
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever,… — 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
For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while,… — 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
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
You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. — 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
