Joseph Conrad Quotes

• 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. What redeems it is an idea only.

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• My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word to make you hear, to make you feel—it is, before all, to make you see. That—and no more, and it is everything.

  Joseph Conrad

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• It is only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.

  Joseph Conrad

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• Like a flash of lightning between the clouds, we live in the flicker.

  Joseph Conrad

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  I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old and solid friendship.

  Joseph Conrad

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  A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!

  Joseph Conrad

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

   

  Joseph Conrad

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• Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.

  Joseph Conrad

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• All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.

  Joseph Conrad

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• Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.

  Joseph Conrad

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  Tags in Heart, Learned, Hope

• Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

  Joseph Conrad

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

   

  Joseph Conrad

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

  Joseph Conrad

• Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

   

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  Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love – and to put its trust in life.

   

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  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.

   

  Joseph Conrad

• 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.

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

   

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  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.

   

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• 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.

  Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad (82)

Birth:	3rd December, 1857
Death:	3rd August, 1924
Nationality:	Polish
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

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