Quotes from Joseph Conrad

This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh.

constant dropping will wear away a stone

The great republic has the root of the destructive matter in her. The collective temperament is lawless.

This fear is what is the ruin of us all. And some dominate us; they take advantage of our fear and frighten us still more. Mark this: as long as people are afraid, they will rot like the birches in the marsh. We must grow bold; it is time!

Falamos com indignação ou com entusiasmo; falamos sobre opressão, crueldade, crime, devoção, abnegação, virtude e nada sabemos, além de palavras. Ninguém sabe o que significa sofrimento ou sacrifício – exceto, talvez, as vítimas do misterioso propósito dessas ilusões.

It was with these feelings that I began the creation of a human being.

are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog, which the pitiless cold blasts of the father's analysis had blown away from the son.

As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large. After having formed this determination and having spent some months in successfully collecting and arranging my materials, I began.

We here in Moscow are more occupied with dinner parties and scandal than with politics

He became a waif and stray, austerely, from conviction, as others do through drink, from vice, from some weakness of character — with deliberation, as others do in despair. This, stripped

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

For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

for conceit spoils the finest genius.

Hubo un tiempo en que los hombres contaban.

To think that I have wasted years of my life, that I have longed for death, that the greatest love that I have ever known has been for a woman who did not please me, who was not in my style! Part 4

as naturally as water flows deepest where the land lies lowest.

he takes things as he finds them, and makes enjoyment of them somehow or other

It is very difficult to tell the truth, and young people are rarely capable of it.

Sono persuaso che nessuno sciocco ha mai fatto un patto col diavolo per la propria anima: lo sciocco è troppo sciocco, oppure il diavolo è troppo diavolo.

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appalls me.

And they all struggled and suffered and tormented one another and injured their souls, their eternal souls, for the attainment of benefits which endure but for an instant

The serenity of truth and the peace of death can be only secured through a largeness of contempt embracing all the profitable servitudes of life. He

As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and by the consistent narrowness of his outlook. But I have never been able to love what was not lovable or hate what was not hateful out of deference for some general principle. Whether there be any courage in making this admission I know not.

the gift of heaven is in the hands of every man. But