Joseph Conrad

“A slight clinking behind me made me turn my head. Six black men advanced in a file, toiling up the path. They…

— Joseph Conrad

We live as we dream--alone....

— Joseph Conrad

“She had said he had been driven away from her by a dream...”

— Joseph Conrad

“oh youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it!”

— Joseph Conrad

“He existed for me, and after all it is only through me that he exists for you.”

— Joseph Conrad

“[…] but I remember I preferred the soldier to the philosopher at the time; a preference which life has only confirmed. One…

— Joseph Conrad

We can never cease to be ourselves.

— Joseph Conrad

“The typhoon had got on Jukes' nerves”

— joseph conrad

“For the dead can live only with the exact intensity and quality of the life imparted to them by the living.”

— Joseph Conrad

“the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light;”

— Joseph Conrad

Things and men have always a certain sense, a certain side by which they must be got hold of if one wants…

— Joseph Conrad

“This was the unbounded power of eloquence—of words—of burning noble words. There were no practical hints to interrupt the magic current of…

— Joseph Conrad

Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts…

— Joseph Conrad

“The great wall of vegetation, an exuberant and entangled mass of trunks, branches, leaves, boughs, festoons, motionless in the moonlight, was like…

— Joseph Conrad

“The man who says that he has no illusions has at least that one.”

— Joseph Conrad

Any fool can carry on, but only the wise man knows how to shorten sail.

— Joseph Conrad

“Rich or poor, strong or weak, who among us has not begged God for a second chance?”

— Joseph Conrad

“The wicked people were gone, but fear remained.Fear always remains. A man may destroy everything within himself, love and hate and belief,…

— Joseph Conrad

“You perceive the force of a word. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but…

— Joseph Conrad

“On jest romantykiem, tak romantykiem. A to bardzo źle... Bardzo źle... Ale i bardzo dobrze.”

— Joseph Conrad

“the practical value of succes depends not a little on the way you look at it.”

— Joseph Conrad

“Sometimes he was contemptibly childish. He desired to have kings meet him at railway-stations on his return from some ghastly Nowhere, where…

— Joseph Conrad

Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.

— Joseph Conrad

“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

“I felt suddenly that 'this sort of thing' would kill me. The definition of the cause was vague, but the thought itself…

— Joseph Conrad