Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
JOSEPH CONRADWho knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
JOSEPH CONRADAs a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement.
JOSEPH CONRADA task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
JOSEPH CONRADNever test another man by your own weakness.
JOSEPH CONRADArt is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
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 CONRADYour strength is just an accident owed to the weakness of others.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRADReality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
JOSEPH CONRADImagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
JOSEPH CONRADHe struggled with himself, too. I saw it — I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.
JOSEPH CONRADFacing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRADWhat makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
JOSEPH CONRADWe live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
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 CONRAD