Joseph Conrad Quotes

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you’ll have to do something for it.

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

You know I hate, detest, and can’t bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies – which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world – what I want to forget.

If you don’t make mistakes, you don’t make anything .

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind.