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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
By Joseph Conrad
I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the appointed end, which, being truth itself, is one -- one for all men and for all occupations.
By Joseph Conrad
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
By Joseph Conrad
Who could tell what forms, what visions, what faces, what forgiveness he could see in the glow of the west!
By Joseph Conrad
What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
By Joseph Conrad
They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything.
By Joseph Conrad
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
By Joseph Conrad
The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
By Joseph Conrad
The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
By Joseph Conrad
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
By Joseph Conrad
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
By Joseph Conrad
The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.
By Joseph Conrad
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
By Joseph Conrad
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.
By Joseph Conrad
How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat
By Joseph Conrad
Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.
By Joseph Conrad
For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart for the short moment of each human effort.
By Joseph Conrad
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.
By Joseph Conrad
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
By Joseph Conrad
As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.
By Joseph Conrad