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Joseph Conrad Quotes

Joseph Conrad quotes

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

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But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad. Joseph Conrad
Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention? Joseph Conrad
The use of reason is to justify the obscure desires that move our conduct, impulses, passions, prejudices and follies, and also our fears. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the..."
Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its..."
Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "oh youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination..."
oh youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! Joseph Conrad
For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time..."
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space. Joseph Conrad
Well, you know that was the worst of it - this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They howled and leaped, and spun, and made horrid faces; but what thrilled you was just the thought of their humanity - like yours - the thought of your remote kinship with this wild and passionate uproar. Ugly. Yes, it was justly enough; but if you were man enough you would admit to yourself that there was in you just the faintest trace of a response to the terrible frankness of... Joseph Conrad
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. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Joseph Conrad
Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places. Joseph Conrad
The edge of a colossal jungle, so dark-green as to be almost black, fringed with white surf, ran straight, like a ruled line, far, far, away along blue sea whose glitter was blurred by a creeping mist. Joseph Conrad
He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs. Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad quote: "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary;..."
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad
History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. Joseph Conrad

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