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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

Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. — Joseph Conrad

Unhappy Europe! Thou shalt perish by the moral insanity of thy children! — Joseph Conrad

And incompleteness of any sort leads to trouble. — Joseph Conrad

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. — Joseph Conrad

Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest. — Joseph Conrad

His was an impenetrable darkness. I looked at him as you peer down at a man who is lying at the bottom of a precipice where the sun never shines. — 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

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion. — 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

Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. — 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 can't imagine a human being so hard up for something to do as to quarrel with me. — Joseph Conrad

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

I was constantly watching myself, my secret self, as dependent on my actions as my own personality — Joseph Conrad

You know, I've read Joseph Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' about fifteen times. — James Balog

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

There is never any God in a country where men will not help themselves. — Joseph Conrad

You will learn soon how not to be faint-hearted. A man has got to learn everything
and 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

As a general rule, a reputation is built on manner as much as on achievement. — 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

A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway. — 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 vent
itself 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

He existed for me, and after all it is only through me that he exists for you. — Joseph Conrad

Dark human shapes could be made out in the distance, flitting indistinctly against the gloomy border of the forest, — Joseph Conrad

Night, the inevitable reward of men's faithful labors on this earth ... — 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

The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation. — 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

Oh youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it! — 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

On his first visit on shore piloting him firmly but without ostentation to a vast, cavern-like shop which is full of things that are eaten and — Joseph Conrad

Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it. — Joseph Conrad