Joseph Conrad Quotes

Any fool can carry on, but only the wise man knows how to shorten sail.

Some kind of moral discovery should be the object of every tale.

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.

It was amazing to think that in those miles of human habitations there was not probably half a dozen pounds of nails.

Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.

On the contrary, the mere fact of dealing with matters outside the general run of everyday experience laid me under the obligation of a more scrupulous fidelity to the truth of my own sensations. The problem was to make unfamiliar things credible.