“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
But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“But the wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion. I think… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And in the hush that had fallen suddenly upon the whole sorrowful land, the immense wilderness, the colossal body of the fecund… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I take it, no fool ever made a bargain for his soul with the devil; the fool is too much of a… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The nations of the earth are mostly swayed by fear—fear of the sort that a little cheap oratory turns easily to rage,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. She walked with measured… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth. — 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
“Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“We wander in our thousands over the face of the earth, the illustrious and the obscure, earning beyond the seas our fame,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“As is often the case with lawless natures, Ricardo’s faith in any given individual was of a simple, unquestioning character. For man… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The belief in a super natural sources of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“[“... ] Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“.. And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman. 'She walked with… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“She was savage and superb, wild-eyed and magnificent; there was something ominous and stately in her deliberate progress. And in the hush… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The moon had spread over everything a thin layer of silver--over the rank grass, over the mud, upon the wall of matted… — 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
