“A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line...To snatch in a moment… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“This man suffered too much. He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. When I had a chance I begged… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“it may be that it is this very dulness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and welcome. Nevertheless, there… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“[…] but I remember I preferred the soldier to the philosopher at the time; a preference which life has only confirmed. One… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I don't think a single one of them had any clear idea of time, as we at the end of countless ages… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“They were dying slowly — it was very clear. They were not enemies ,they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
The very young have, properly speaking, no moments. It is the privilege of early youth to live in advance of its days… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And when it is accomplished—behold!—all the truth of life is there: a moment of vision, a sigh, a smile—and the return to… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“And for a moment it seemed to me as if I also were buried in a vast grave full of unspeakable secrets.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“I remember staying to look at it for a long time, as one would linger within reach of a consoling whisper. The… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“The well-known shrill voice startled Almayer from his dream of splendid future into the unpleasant realities of the present hour. An unpleasant… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“But the snags were thick, the water was treacherous and shallow, the boiler seemed indeed to have a sulky devil in it,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“and Kurtz’s life was running swiftly, too, ebbing, ebbing out of his heart into the sea of inexorable time.” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For a moment I had a view of a world that seemed to wear a vast and dismal aspect of disorder, while,… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long.… — 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
