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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 when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.

The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

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.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward upon the miseries and credulities of mankind

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.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny.

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook.

You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.

Remember, Razumov, that women, children, and revolutionists hate irony, which is the negation of all saving instincts, of all faith, of all devotion, of all action.

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.

[Even geniuses get the blues.] The more I write the less substance I see in my work, ... It is tolerably awful. And I face it, I face it but the fright is growing on me. My fortitude is shaken by the view of the monster. It does not move; its eyes are baleful; it is as still as death itself -- and it will devour me. Its stare has eaten into my soul already deep, deep.

The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas

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