Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
JOSEPH CONRADFollow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
JOSEPH CONRADEverybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
JOSEPH CONRADFacing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRADAll creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
JOSEPH CONRADPerhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
JOSEPH CONRADReality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
JOSEPH CONRADYou know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.
JOSEPH CONRADIf you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
JOSEPH CONRADIt is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRADIt’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
JOSEPH CONRADAll a man can betray is his conscience.
JOSEPH CONRADWho knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
JOSEPH CONRADThe scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement – but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
JOSEPH CONRADAny work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
JOSEPH CONRADMy task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
JOSEPH CONRADWhat makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
JOSEPH CONRAD