01c. 1890 ADIt is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.Joseph Conrad / quote ↗
02c. 1890 ADBeing a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.Joseph Conrad / quote ↗
03c. 1890 ADAs to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.Joseph Conrad / quote ↗
04c. 1890 ADHistory repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.Joseph Conrad / quote ↗
05c. 1890 ADThe sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.Joseph Conrad / quote ↗
06c. 1890 ADHow does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?Joseph Conrad / quote ↗
07c. 1890 ADOnly in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.Joseph Conrad / quote ↗
08c. 1890 ADTruth 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.Joseph Conrad / quote ↗
09c. 1890 ADIt is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog.Joseph Conrad / quote ↗
10c. 1890 ADHe who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.Joseph Conrad / quote ↗
11c. 1890 ADAny work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.Joseph Conrad / quote ↗
12c. 1890 ADThe belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.Joseph Conrad / quote ↗
14c. 1890 ADAll ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.Joseph Conrad / quote ↗
