Quotes by : Joseph Conrad

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it but man will never on his....

The conquest of the earth which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion....

Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into....

In a dispassionate view the ardour for reform, improvement for virtue, for knowledge, and even beauty....

Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our....

It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream....

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our....

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover....

Fiction, at the point of development at which it has arrived, demands from the writer a spirit of scrupulous....

One must not make too much of anything in life, good or bad.