Joseph Conrad

Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To…

Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear…

It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine…

The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities…

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the…

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is…

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps…

Going home must be like going to render an account…

A man’s real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men…

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite…

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love…

A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth…

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those…

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a…

Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy…