The mind of man is capable of anything-because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valour, rage-who can tell?-but truth-truth stripped of its cloak of time. Let the fool gape and shudder-the man know, and can look on without a wink. But he must at least be as much of a man as these on the shore. He must meet the truth with his own true stuff-with his own inborn strength.
Joseph ConradTags: inspirational human-nature
The value of a sentence is the personality that utters't, for nothing new can be said by any man or woman.
Joseph ConradThe revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains.
Joseph ConradJoy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an overshadowed ocean, while the dazzling brightness of supreme hopes lies far off, fascinating and still, on the distant edge of the horizon
Joseph ConradTo cut oneself entirely from one's kind is impossible. To live in a desert one must be a saint.
Joseph ConradThe field of influence was great and infinitely varied - once one had conquered a name.
Joseph ConradI can't afford to despise anything. An absurdity may be the starting-point of the most dangerous complications.
Joseph ConradI am quite willing to be the blind instrument of higher ends. To give one's life for the cause is nothing. But to have one's illusions destroyed - that is really almost more than one can bear.
Joseph ConradIt is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.
Joseph ConradTags: knowledge self understanding denial
Felicity, felicity - how shall I say it? - is quaffed out of a golden cup in every latitude: the flavour is with you - with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
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