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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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The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much

A word carries far - very far - deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.

It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.

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.

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

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.

The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly Weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.

I don't like work no man does but I like what is in the work the chance to find yourself

Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality

I can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation

The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.

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