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Joseph Conrad Quotes

Joseph Conrad quotes

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

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The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the..."
And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth. Joseph Conrad
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. What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea; and an unselfish belief in the idea—something you can set up, and bow down before, and offer a sacrifice to… Joseph Conrad
We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And there are things - they look small enough sometimes too - by which some of us are totally and completely undone. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the..."
...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself... Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the..."
...for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence... Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea..."
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of..."
You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the..."
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "Going home must be like going to render an account."
Going home must be like going to render an account. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "Even extreme grief may ultimately ventitself in violence--but..."
Even extreme grief may ultimately ventitself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy Joseph Conrad
Or you may be such a thunderingly exalted creature as to be altogether deaf and blind to anything but heavenly sights and sounds. Then the earth for you is only a standing place- whether to be like this is your loss or your gain I won't pretend to say. Joseph Conrad
By heavens! there is something after all in the world allowing one man to steal a horse while another must not look at a halter. Steal a horse straight out. Very well. He has done it. Perhaps he can ride. But there is a way of looking at a halter that would provoke the most charitable of saints into a kick. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a..."
Curiosity being one of the forms of self-revelation, a systematically incurious person remains always partly mysterious. Joseph Conrad
Besides holding our hearts together through long periods of separation, it had the effect of making us tolerant of each other's yarns--and even convictions. Joseph Conrad

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