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Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad föddes den 3 december 1857 och dog den 3 august 1924 - brittisk författare.
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It is respectable to have no illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still...

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to an end

It's queer how out of touch with the truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset.

The real significance of crime is in its being a breach of faith with the community of mankind

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?

I would not unduly praise the virtue of restraint. It is often merely temperamental. But it is not always a sign of coldness. It may be pride. There can be nothing more humiliating than to see the shaft of one's emotion miss the mark of either laughter or tears. Nothing more humiliating! And this for the reason that should the mark be missed, should the open display of emotion fail to move, then it must perish unavoidably in disgust or contempt.

The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.

What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?

I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable grayness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamor, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat.

Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence

Det är respektabelt att ha illusioner – och säkert – och lönsamt, och tråkigt. (Att ha illusioner är respektabelt, säkert och tråkigt)

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

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.

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