Joseph Conrad Quotes

Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Luxury Necessary Protection
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Action Myself Silence Talk
It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Believe Experience Luck Man Mark
He 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 CONRAD

Argument Himself Power Right Trust World
Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Myself Power Right Word World
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Afraid Bliss Yourself
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Enjoyment Reality Talk
The mind of man is capable of anything.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Capability Man Mindset
It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Born Earth Fate Goodness People Wait
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Appearance Different Earth Yourself
To be busy with material affairs is the best preservative against reflection, fears, doubts, all these things which stand in the way of achievement. I suppose a fellow proposing to cut his throat would experience a sort of relief while occupied in stropping his razor carefully.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Achievement Affair Busy Doubt Experience Fear Material Reflection
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Acceptance Discover Patience Right Understand
To be a great autocrat you must be a great barbarian.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Achievement Greatness Yourself
I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Chance Discover Reality Work Yourself
I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Legs Mindset Myself Road
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Cruelty Discover Greatness Greedy History Occasion
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 CONRAD

Illusion Lonely Memories Misery Naked Terrorism True Word
We live as we dream – alone.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Alone Dreams Live One Liner
A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Adventure Romance Spirit Task
Perhaps life is just that- a dream and a fear.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Deep Dreams Fear Life One Liner
It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Accomplishment Achievement Blessing Greatness Rule Warm World
Going home must be like going to render an account.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Account Home Journey
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Deal Difficult Man Terrible Woman
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Himself Man Work
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
JOSEPH CONRAD

Eyes Lost Lying See Truth Wind Writing
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Ambition Exception Kind Law Man
All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.
JOSEPH CONRAD

Art Creative Magic Surprise

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