"Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men."
"We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories."
5 likes
Source: Joseph Cook (1881). “The Boston Monday Lectures”
About the author
Same author
More quotes by Joseph Conrad
"The air of the New World seems favorable to the art of declamation."
"It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog."
"I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know."
"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
"The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness."