Joseph Conrad

Novelist, Short Story Writer

Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British author known for his profound exploration of human nature in works like 'Heart of Darkness'.

Born
December 3, 1857
Died
August 3, 1924
Quotes
278
Rank
#166

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"[The artist] speaks to our capacity for delight and wonder, to the sense of mystery surrounding our lives; to our sense of pity, and beauty, and pain; to the latent feeling of fellowship with all creation--and to the subtle but invincible conviction of solidarity in dreams, in joy, in sorrow, in aspirations, in illusions, in hope, in fear…which binds together all humanity--the dead to the living and the living to the unborn."

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"Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake."

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"Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly."

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"It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape of betrayal. And perhaps there is no possible explanation."

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"Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds of that lamentable courtyard, the silence of the land went home to one's very heart - its mystery, its greatness, the amazing reality of its concealed life."

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"As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook."

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"the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future"

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"Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men."

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"Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work."

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"All creative art is magic , is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising, for the edification of mankind , pinned down by the conditions of its existence to the earnest consideration of the most insignificant tides of reality ."

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"Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters."

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"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more"

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"A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience."

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"I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort /to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires /and expires, too soon, too soon /before life itself"

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"Here's the main page of motivational quotes, if you want a different topic. Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys."

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"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please."

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

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"The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest. The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come and wait for the turn of the tide."

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"Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war as well?...It would have been so much nicer just to sail about, with here and there a port and a bit of land to stretch one's legs on, buy a few books and get a change of cooking for a while."

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"A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea."

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