Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
JOSEPH CONRADAny work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
JOSEPH CONRADA task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
JOSEPH CONRADGod is for men, and religion for women.
JOSEPH CONRADThere is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
JOSEPH CONRADEverything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest.
JOSEPH CONRADFacing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it.
JOSEPH CONRADAll roads are long which lead to one’s heart’s desire.
JOSEPH CONRADNever test another man by your own weakness.
JOSEPH CONRADThe human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
JOSEPH CONRADI have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine.
JOSEPH CONRADImagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
JOSEPH CONRADThe question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
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 CONRADA man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
JOSEPH CONRADWhat makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
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 CONRAD