And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth.” — 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
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. — 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
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
“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
“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
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
“Yes, the sound of water, the voice of the wind - completely foreign to human passions. All the other sounds of this… — 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 wilderness] had caressed him, and—lo!—he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but… — 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
“Oh the glamour of youth! Oh the fire of it, more dazzling than the flames of the burning ship, throwing a magic… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter… — 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
“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
“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
“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 it is human, soon takes… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter… — 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
“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
“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
“I think the knowledge came to him at last — only at the very last. But the wilderness had found him out… — 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 measured… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“She walked with measured steps, draped in striped and fringed cloths, treading the earth proudly, with a slight jingle and flash of… — 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
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
“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
“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
“Whether he knew of this deficiency himself I can't say. I think the knowledge came to him at last--only at the very… — 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
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
“But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had gone mad. I had - for my sins, I suppose… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It was a great peace, as if the earth had been one grave, and for a time I stood there thinking mostly… — 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
![“[The wilderness] had caressed him, and—lo!—he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation.” quote by Joseph Conrad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/563/joseph-conrad-336_corruption_the-wilderness-had-caressed-him-and-lo-h_1658390.jpg)
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