It 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 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 CONRADIt occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
JOSEPH CONRADThe conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
JOSEPH CONRADAll a man can betray is his conscience.
JOSEPH CONRADAny work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
JOSEPH CONRADA word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
JOSEPH CONRADI take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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 CONRADI always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
JOSEPH CONRADWhat makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
JOSEPH CONRADFew men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.
JOSEPH CONRADThe sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
JOSEPH CONRADIn order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
JOSEPH CONRADReality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
JOSEPH CONRADThe question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
JOSEPH CONRAD