Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conradwas a Polish-British writer regarded as one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language. He joined the British merchant marine in 1878, and was granted British nationality in 1886. Though he did not speak English fluently until he was in his twenties, he was a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature. He wrote stories and novels, many with a nautical setting, that depict trials of the human spirit in the midst...
NationalityPolish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth3 December 1857
CountryPoland
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham.
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.
He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.
The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
Words, as is well known, are great foes of reality
What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.
You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
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.