“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
“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
“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
“[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 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
“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
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. — 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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it. — 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 conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the… — 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
Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this...sometimes it seems to me… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which… — 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
“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
