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
You can't breathe dead hippo waking, sleeping, and eating, and at the same time keep your precarious grip on existence.
Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.
Going home must be like going to render an account.
A modern fleet of ships does not so much make use of the sea as exploit a highway.
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.
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.
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.
The sea-reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway. In the offing the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint, and in the luminous space the tanned sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked, with gleams of varnished sprits.
The revolutionary spirit is mightily convenient in this: that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas
Between the conception and the creationbetween the emotion and the responseFalls the shadow