Going home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRADGoing home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRADI like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
JOSEPH CONRADWhat makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
JOSEPH CONRADImagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
JOSEPH CONRADThe human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
JOSEPH CONRADVanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
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 CONRADYou shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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 CONRADI take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
JOSEPH CONRADProtection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
JOSEPH CONRADTo be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
JOSEPH CONRADThere is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
JOSEPH CONRADNever test another man by your own weakness.
JOSEPH CONRADNowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship’s wake.
JOSEPH CONRAD