Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Once, I remember, we came upon a man-of-war anchored off the coast. There wasn't even a shed there, and she was shelling… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Yet, when one thinks of it, diplomacy without force is a but a rotten reed to lean upon. — 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
