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084cb35 Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men. Joseph Conrad
dc395a4 It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose. Joseph Conrad
f7e3984 We live as we dream--alone.... loneliness Joseph Conrad
8045441 It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice. struggle nightmare Joseph Conrad
ca0ec5a Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing. suicide Joseph Conrad
897bf2b My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. writing inspirational power-of-words Joseph Conrad
6adf8cf I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality--for yourself not for others--what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means. Joseph Conrad
4e13400 The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad
7761e7a Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. Joseph Conrad
740da48 No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle and penetrating essence. It is impossible. We live, as we dream--alone. loneliness subjective-experience Joseph Conrad
5868743 Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets. life regret Joseph Conrad
ddaff62 He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself. struggle Joseph Conrad
778432a The mind of man is capable of anything. man mind Joseph Conrad
fcda87d But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad. the-horror Joseph Conrad
e65f3a8 We live in the flicker -- may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling! But darkness was here yesterday. Joseph Conrad
6a3b0fc It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is of the very essence of dreams...No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one's existence--that which makes its t.. Joseph Conrad
3fd315b The question is not how to get cured, but how to live. chronic-illness cures illness inspirational cure healing recovery Joseph Conrad
8626c7b We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully. Joseph Conrad
e4f3c3f The horror! The horror! the-horror Joseph Conrad
8cf606e 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 appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget. Joseph Conrad
59fa53e Even extreme grief may ultimately vent itself in violence--but more generally takes the form of apathy grief depression Joseph Conrad
a79bc49 We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness Joseph Conrad
978c978 It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core. Joseph Conrad
97c3c54 I have wrestled with death. It is the most unexciting contest you can imagine. It takes place in an impalpable greyness, with nothing underfoot, with nothing around, without spectators, without clamour, without glory, without the great desire of victory, without the great fear of defeat, in a sickly atmostphere of tepid scepticism, without much belief in your own right, and still less in that of your adversary. Joseph Conrad
30f58ba They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no partic.. identity knowledge Joseph Conrad
4c52eb8 Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker. Joseph Conrad
3058588 Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear inspirational Joseph Conrad
0e096a5 the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future Joseph Conrad
fc3850b Do you see the story? Do you see anything? It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation, that commingling of absurdity, surprise, and bewilderment in a tremor of struggling revolt, that notion of being captured by the incredible which is the very essence of dreams... mind storytelling Joseph Conrad
846a43d His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear. Joseph Conrad
c403169 I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life... Joseph Conrad
d8162d8 He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away. Joseph Conrad
491c6fa Going up that river was like travelling back to the earliest beginnings of the world, when vegetation rioted on the earth and the big trees were kings. An empty stream, a great silence, an impenetrable forest. The air was warm, thick, heavy, sluggish. There was no joy in the brilliance of sunshine. The long stretches of the waterway ran on, deserted, into the gloom of overshadowed distances. On silvery sandbanks hippos and alligators sunned.. Joseph Conrad
55dcd84 Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. Joseph Conrad
c91286b You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends. Joseph Conrad
fbbcbc7 We can never cease to be ourselves. Joseph Conrad
e07837f We couldn't understand because we were too far... and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign... and no memories. Joseph Conrad
06cf63f Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out"." navigation Joseph Conrad
5e1be01 They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force--nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others. Joseph Conrad
36bea46 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 k.. struggle morality the-horror Joseph Conrad
c4f692b Never test another man by your own weakness. weaknesses weakness test Joseph Conrad
9539479 One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse. Joseph Conrad
8c6faa6 I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced Joseph Conrad
41ca4b8 It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. understanding self knowledge Joseph Conrad
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