128 ordspråk av Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad föddes den 3 december 1857 och dog den 3 august 1924 - brittisk författare.
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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.

It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.

'The horror! The horror!

Att vara kvinna är en ruskigt svår uppgift, eftersom den i huvudsak handlar om att handskas med män.

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Att vara kvinna

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

Att vara kvinna

It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull

You can't, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

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.

Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory

Strängt taget är det bara en sorts böcker som har ökat lyckan här på jorden: kokböckerna.

English saved my life.

The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits.

In the film, I am very much present. Gabrielle has something in common with Madame Bovary - every portrait of a woman from that period resembles Madame Bovary - the first nonromantic heroine.

Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury.

What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.

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