I remember my youth... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men. — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
“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 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 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
“[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 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
“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
“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 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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality — Joseph Conrad Copy Share
![“[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/i/563/joseph-conrad-336_corruption_the-wilderness-had-caressed-him-and-lo-h_1658390.jpg)
