Joseph Conrad

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with…

Only in men’s imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not…

Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification…

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of…

As to honor – you know – it’s a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got…

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but…

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves…

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its…