A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“What saves us is efficiency--the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administration… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“They believed their words. Everybody shows a respectful deference to certain sounds that he and his fellows can make. But about feelings… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream,--and there was no answer one could make her--there seemed… — 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
“All my moral and intellectual being is penetrated by an invincible conviction that whatever falls under the dominion of our senses must… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“oh youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it!” — 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
“And yet is not mankind itself, pushing on its blind way, driven by a dream of its greatness and its power upon… — 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
“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
“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
