All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRADAll ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRADThe sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
JOSEPH CONRADWe live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
JOSEPH CONRADHe who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
JOSEPH CONRADProtection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
JOSEPH CONRADIf you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .
JOSEPH CONRADVanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
JOSEPH CONRADArt is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
JOSEPH CONRADAs a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
JOSEPH CONRADWe live as we dream – alone.
JOSEPH CONRADA writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
JOSEPH CONRADMy task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
JOSEPH CONRADI like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
JOSEPH CONRADAll a man can betray is his conscience.
JOSEPH CONRADI am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.
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 CONRAD