The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
JOSEPH CONRADThe question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
JOSEPH CONRADProtection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
JOSEPH CONRADVanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
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 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 CONRADNever test another man by your own weakness.
JOSEPH CONRADAny fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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 CONRADYou shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
JOSEPH CONRADEverything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
JOSEPH CONRADA task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
JOSEPH CONRADI take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
JOSEPH CONRADI like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
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 CONRADEverybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
JOSEPH CONRAD