I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it. Joseph Conrad More Quotes by Joseph Conrad More Quotes From Joseph Conrad He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. Joseph Conrad midstfascinationdarkness The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. Joseph Conrad souljoyadventure A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale. Joseph Conrad simplicitysoulcommon God is for men, and religion for women. Joseph Conrad men-womenwomenmen A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience. Joseph Conrad novelistsartistmay The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. Joseph Conrad couragemenlife Do not talk to me of Archimedes' lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagination. Mathematics commands my respect, but I have no use for engines. Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world. Joseph Conrad imaginationgivingmoving Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off. Joseph Conrad life-is-shortwritingart I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe. Joseph Conrad dirtrunninglittles The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart-the heart of a conquering darkness. Joseph Conrad darknesshouseheart An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. Joseph Conrad issuesmenart The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it. Joseph Conrad inkpaperorder They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares. Joseph Conrad darknessminddream We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well survive - survive the condemnations, survive the halter, by Jove! And there are things - they look small enough sometimes too - by which some of us are totally and completely undone. Joseph Conrad namesmaylooks Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of sombre pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror--of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision--he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath: The horror! The horror! Joseph Conrad prideexpressionstruggle The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring. Joseph Conrad acquisitionappealsartist Youth is insolent; it is its right - its necessity; it has got to assert itself, and all assertion in this world of doubts is a defiance, is an insolence. Joseph Conrad youthdoubtworld Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called him to return to that rubbish heap from which he had wandered away, so that justice could be done. Joseph Conrad takenjusticechildren Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men. Joseph Conrad being-a-ladyassignmentsmen A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance. Joseph Conrad meritromancetasks
