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Joseph Conrad

A man’s real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.

– Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.

– Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

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.

– Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

A man’s most open actions have a secret side to them.

– Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

Going home must be like going to render an account.

– Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

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

Joseph Conrad

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

– Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.

– Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

Don’t you forget what’s divine in the Russian soul and that’s resignation.

– Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

– Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

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.

– Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad

As to honor – you know – it’s a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn’t theirs.

– Joseph Conrad

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