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Joseph Conrad Quotes

Joseph Conrad quotes

Polish Novelist, Writer December 3, 1857 – August 3, 1924

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Joseph Conrad quote: "I take it that what all men are really after is some form or..."
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. 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. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she..."
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "To cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live..."
To cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint. Joseph Conrad
Pop, would go one of the six-inch guns; a small flame would dart and vanish, a little white smoke would disappear, a tiny projectile would give a feeble screech - and nothing happend. Nothing could happen. There was a touch of insanity in the proceeding, a sense of lugubrious drollery in the sight; and it was not dissipated by somebody on board assuring me earnestly there was a camp of natives - he called them enemies! hidden out of sight somewhere. Joseph Conrad
Had he been informed by an indisputable authority that the end of the world was to be finally accomplished by a catastrophic disturbance of the atmosphere, he would have assimilated the information under the simple idea of dirty weather, and no other, because he had no experience of cataclysms, and belief does not necessarily imply comprehension. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval..."
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. Joseph Conrad
It is this country that is dangerous, with her idealistic conception of legality. The social spirit of this people is wrapped up in scrupulous prejudices and that is fatal to our work.. You talk of England being our only refuge! So much the worse. What do we want with refuges ? Here you talk, print, plot, and do nothing. Joseph Conrad
You see we had on the whole liked him well enough. And liking is not sufficient to keep going the interest one takes in a human being. With hatred, apparently, it is otherwise. Joseph Conrad
There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "A woman's true tenderness, like the true virility of man, is..."
A woman's true tenderness, like the true virility of man, is expressed in action of a conquering kind. Joseph Conrad
but heavens! how that man could talk! He electrified large meetings. He had faith—don't you see?—he had the faith. He could get himself to believe anything—anything. He would have been a splendid “leader of an extreme party.' 'What party?' I asked. 'Any party,' answered the other. 'He was an—an—extremist. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at..."
A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale. Joseph Conrad
Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from which he had wandered away, so that justice could be done. Joseph Conrad
My 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

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