One must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
JOSEPH CONRADOne must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
JOSEPH CONRADThe ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
JOSEPH CONRADTo be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
JOSEPH CONRADAny fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
JOSEPH CONRADHe who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
JOSEPH CONRADHistory repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
JOSEPH CONRADA writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
JOSEPH CONRADImagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
JOSEPH CONRADI am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
JOSEPH CONRADI slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.
JOSEPH CONRADThat’s why love is so inseparable from any talk about truth and death, because we know that love is fundamentally a death of an old self that was isolated and the emergence of a new self now entangled with another self, the self that you fall in love with.
JOSEPH CONRADThe real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRADNever test another man by your own weakness.
JOSEPH CONRADWe live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
JOSEPH CONRADIt’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
JOSEPH CONRADA man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
JOSEPH CONRAD