It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRADI have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
JOSEPH CONRADAll ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRADKisses are the remnants of paradise.
JOSEPH CONRADTo have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
JOSEPH CONRADWe live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
JOSEPH CONRADA certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
JOSEPH CONRADIf you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
JOSEPH CONRADReality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
JOSEPH CONRADThey were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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 CONRADProtection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
JOSEPH CONRADYou can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
JOSEPH CONRADBut it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker – may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!
JOSEPH CONRADArt is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
JOSEPH CONRAD