“It is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried on in every individual breast… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“To snatch in a moment of courage, from the remorseless rush of time, a passing phase of life, is only the beginning… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“There are no such things. All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“He was ruined in every way, but a man possessed of passion is not a bankrupt in life.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live. — 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