He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end. — 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
I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. — 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
