92 Quotations by Joseph Conrad
- 21. Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man root ...
- 22. Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end ...
- 23. Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.
- 24. For the great mass of mankind, the only saving grace needed is a steady fidelity to what is nearest ...
- 25. Going home must be like going to render an account.
- 26. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
- 27. Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little ...
- 28. Happiness, happiness... the flavor is with you -- with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicatin ...
- 29. Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was wel ...
- 30. He was obeyed, yet he inspired neither love nor fear, nor even respect. He inspired uneasiness. That ...
- 31. He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The ...
- 32. History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It ...
- 33. How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectr ...
- 34. I can't tell if a straw ever saved a drowning man, but I know that a mere glance is enough to make d ...
- 35. I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past yea ...
- 36. I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- ...
- 37. I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possib ...
- 38. I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an ...
- 39. I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more -- the feeling that I could l ...
- 40. I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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