A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRADA word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRADVanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
JOSEPH CONRADWe can never cease to be ourselves.
JOSEPH CONRADBeing a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRADIt would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation.
JOSEPH CONRADYour strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
JOSEPH CONRADThere is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
JOSEPH CONRADAll creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
JOSEPH CONRADYou shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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 CONRADThe sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
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 CONRADThe sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
JOSEPH CONRADA writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
JOSEPH CONRADAny fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
JOSEPH CONRADOne must explore deep and believe the incredible to find the new particles of truth floating in an ocean of insignificance.
JOSEPH CONRAD