There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. 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 midst fascination darkness The good author is he who contemplates without marked joy or excessive sorrow the adventures of his soul amongst criticisms. Joseph Conrad soul joy adventure A certain simplicity of thought is common to serene souls at both ends of the social scale. Joseph Conrad simplicity soul common God is for men, and religion for women. Joseph Conrad men-women women men A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience. Joseph Conrad novelists artist may 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 courage men life 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 imagination giving moving Art is long and life is short, and success is very far off. Joseph Conrad life-is-short writing art 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 dirt running littles 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 darkness house heart 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 issues men art 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 ink paper order They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares. Joseph Conrad darkness mind dream 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 names may looks 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 pride expression struggle The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring. Joseph Conrad acquisition appeals artist 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 youth doubt world 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 taken justice children Being a lady is a frightfully troublesome assignment, since it comprises mainly in managing men. Joseph Conrad being-a-lady assignments men A task, any task, undertaken in an adventurous spirit acquires the merit of romance. Joseph Conrad merit romance tasks
