3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad As to honor – you know – it’s a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn’t theirs.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one’s enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one’s friends.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad A man’s real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
3 December 2020 Joseph Conrad Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.
