Joseph Conrad
In Poland born English writer
Lived from: 1857 - 1924
Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 3 december 1857 Died: 3 august 1924
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The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.
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There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten - before the end is told - even if there happens to be any end to it.
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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
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They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience.
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They were born, they suffered, they died; yet it is a great tale!
Chance (1913)― Joseph Conrad -
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
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To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.
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Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory.
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What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
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What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
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Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
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Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
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You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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