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We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
— Joseph Conrad
Don't you know what the police are for, Stevie? They are there so that them as have nothing shouldn't take anything away from them who have.
— Joseph Conrad
She left a lingering smudge of smoke on the sky, and two vanishing trails of foam on the water.
— Joseph Conrad
And incompleteness of any sort leads to trouble.
— Joseph Conrad
We can never cease to be ourselves.
— Joseph Conrad
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
— Joseph Conrad
A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
— Joseph Conrad
All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire.
— Joseph Conrad
I saw him open his mouth wide ... as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.
— Joseph Conrad
God is for men, and religion for women.
— Joseph Conrad
He was ruined in every way, but a man possessed of passion is not a bankrupt in life.
— Joseph Conrad
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
— Joseph Conrad
I had immense plans,' he irresolutely muttered.
— Joseph Conrad
The typhoon had got on Jukes' nerves
— Joseph Conrad
We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness
— Joseph Conrad
I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality
— Joseph Conrad
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
— Joseph Conrad
Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
— Joseph Conrad
You will learn soon how not to be faint-hearted. A man has got to learn everythingand that's what so many of them youngsters don't understand. — Joseph Conrad
The man who can't do most things and won't do the rest
— Joseph Conrad
The weakness of many tellers of tales who seem so often unaware of what their audience would best like to hear;
— Joseph Conrad
The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket.
— Joseph Conrad
The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms.
— Joseph Conrad
undemonstrative in a burly fat-pig style
— Joseph Conrad
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
— Joseph Conrad
Nothing is more painful than the shock of sharp contradictions that lacerate our intelligence and our feelings.
— Joseph Conrad
No wonder there are bandits in the Campo when there are none but thieves, swindlers, and sanguinary macaques to rule us...
— Joseph Conrad
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
— Joseph Conrad
The Zangiacomo band was not making music; it was simply murdering silence with a vulgar, ferocious energy.
— Joseph Conrad
Government in general, any government anywhere, is a thing of exquisite comicality to a discerning mind.
— Joseph Conrad
The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.
— Joseph Conrad
river, small green flames, red flames, white flames, pursuing,
— Joseph Conrad
Even extreme grief may ultimately ventitself in violence
but more generally takes the form of apathy — Joseph Conrad
It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.
— Joseph Conrad
And in this case his great practice in it was assisted by hate, which, like love, has an eloquence of its own.
— Joseph Conrad
There can be no life without faith and love - faith in a human heart, love of a human being! That
— Joseph Conrad
Old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled
— Joseph Conrad
It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.
— Joseph Conrad
I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all.
— Joseph Conrad
Slavery is an awful thing," stammered out Kayerts in an unsteady voice. "Frightful - the sufferings," grunted Carlier with conviction.
— Joseph Conrad
One lives too long. Happy X-mas.
— Joseph Conrad
And a word carries far-very far-deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
— Joseph Conrad
He was easily sorry for people.
— Joseph Conrad
The value of a sentence is the personality that utters't, for nothing new can be said by any man or woman.
— Joseph Conrad
A diplomatic statement, Lena, is a statement of which everything is true but the sentiment which seems to prompt it.
— Joseph Conrad
Writing in English is like throwing mud at a wall.
— Joseph Conrad
Dark human shapes could be made out in the distance, flitting indistinctly against the gloomy border of the forest,
— Joseph Conrad
I remember my youth ... the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men.
— Joseph Conrad
If anybody had ever struggled with a soul, I am the man
— Joseph Conrad
To cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint.
— Joseph Conrad
The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation
— Joseph Conrad
I like what is in the work the chance to find yourself. — Joseph Conrad
The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death
— Joseph Conrad
The conquest of the earth is not a pretty thing.
— Joseph Conrad
He was absurd to the point of inspiration.
— Joseph Conrad
There was nothing but myself between him and the dark ocean. I had a sense of responsibility. If I spoke, would
— Joseph Conrad
Going home must be like going to render an account.
— Joseph Conrad
I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.
— Joseph Conrad
I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly.
— Joseph Conrad
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
— Joseph Conrad
And after all, one does not die of it." "Die of what?" I asked swiftly. "Of being afraid.
— Joseph Conrad
Is there a spot on earth where such a man is unknown, an ominous survival testifying to the eternal fitness of lies and impudence?
— Joseph Conrad
Skirts of the unknown, and the white men rushing out of a tumble-down hovel, with great gestures
— Joseph Conrad
My task is to make you hear, feel and see. That and no more, and that is everything.
— Joseph Conrad
I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced
— Joseph Conrad
But in the great demoralization of the land he kept up his appearance. That's backbone.
— Joseph Conrad
One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.
— Joseph Conrad
Never test another man by your own weakness.
— Joseph Conrad
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
— Joseph Conrad
Nobody, nobody is good enough
— Joseph Conrad
Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off.
— Joseph Conrad
On men reprieved by its disdainful mercy, the immortal sea confers in its justice the full privilege of desired unrest.
— Joseph Conrad
The way of even the most jusitifiable revolution is prepared by personal impulses disguised into creeds.
— Joseph Conrad
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury
— Joseph Conrad
We live in the flicker may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday. — Joseph Conrad
Violence is not a catalyst but a diversion.
— Joseph Conrad
He applied himself to that pastime with great industry,
— Joseph Conrad
There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man.
— Joseph Conrad
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
— Joseph Conrad
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
— Joseph Conrad
That man seems to have a particular talent for being on the spot whenever there is something picturesque to be done.
— Joseph Conrad
