To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
JOSEPH CONRADTo have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRADEverything belonged to him–but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.
JOSEPH CONRADThe belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
JOSEPH CONRADI like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself.
JOSEPH CONRADEverything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
JOSEPH CONRADWe can never cease to be ourselves.
JOSEPH CONRADA certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
JOSEPH CONRADArt is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
JOSEPH CONRADIt occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
JOSEPH CONRADImagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
JOSEPH CONRADEverybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
JOSEPH CONRADWe live in the flicker — may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday.
JOSEPH CONRADA task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
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 CONRADGoing home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRAD