“The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“this castaway, that, like a man transplanted into another planet, was separated by an immense space from his past and by an… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into… — 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… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand… — 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 — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And the intimate profundity of that look he gave me when he received his hurt remains to this day in my memory-like… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“There were moments when one's past came back to one, as it will sometimes when you have not a moment to spare… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“--From "A Familiar Preface", 1912(PR,pp,19-20）： “At a time when nothing which is not revolutionary in some way or other can expect to… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“He steered for me - I had to look after him, I worried about his deficiencies, and thus a subtle bond had… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
In the time of Spanish rule, and for many years afterwards, the town of Sulaco--the luxuriant beauty of the orange gardens bears… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“No, they did not bury me, though there is a period of time which I remember mistily, with a shuddering wonder, like… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign… — 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
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“He was little more than a voice. And I heard-him-it-this voice-other voices-all of them were so little more than voices-and the memory… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Oh the glamour of youth! Oh the fire of it, more dazzling than the flames of the burning ship, throwing a magic… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And there was somewhere inside me the thought: By Jove! this is the deuce of an adventure - something you read about;… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It was a great peace, as if the earth had been one grave, and for a time I stood there thinking mostly… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“But this is the idlest of dreams: for I did understand perfectly well at the time that the moment the breath left… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“A blinding sunlight drowned all this at times in a sudden recrudescence of glare.” — 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
