“The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“In a few moments all the stars came out above the intense blackness of the earth and the great lagoon gleaming suddenly… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this 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
“The sight of it made the earth seem unearthly. They were accustomed to look upon the shackled form of a conquered monster,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Fate looks at nothing. It has no discretion. He no longer considered it eminently desirable all round to establish publicly the identity… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The earth for us is a place to live in, where we must put up with sights, with sounds, with smells, too,… — 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 live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday. — 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
