It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
JOSEPH CONRADIt occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
JOSEPH CONRADThe mind of man is capable of anything.
JOSEPH CONRADThe real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRADA certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.
JOSEPH CONRADA task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
JOSEPH CONRADBeing a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRADAll ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRADTo have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
JOSEPH CONRADThere is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRADAll a man can betray is his conscience.
JOSEPH CONRADA man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
JOSEPH CONRADGoing home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRADWe live as we dream – alone.
JOSEPH CONRADIt is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRAD