Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time. Joseph Conrad More Quotes by Joseph Conrad More Quotes From Joseph Conrad The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. Joseph Conrad evil-people inspirational men Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. Joseph Conrad strong-women hilarious funny I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know. Joseph Conrad being-yourself work inspirational If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything . Joseph Conrad making-mistakes ifs mistake All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire. Joseph Conrad desire heart long My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. Joseph Conrad tasks writing trying You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search the darkest corners of your heart, the most remote recesses of your brain, - you must search them for the image, for the glamour, for the right expression. And you must do it sincerely, at any cost: you must do it so that at the end of your day's work you should feel exhausted, emptied of every sensation and every thought, with a blank mind and an aching heart, with the notion that there is nothing, - nothing left in you. Joseph Conrad blank-mind expression heart All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. Joseph Conrad ambition literature feet All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising. Joseph Conrad creativity creative art Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as easily as the light air-bubbles in the swirls of the ship's wake. Joseph Conrad light past fall Kisses are the remnants of paradise. Joseph Conrad remnants paradise kissing It is not the clear-sighted who rule the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm fog. Joseph Conrad fog achievement blessed You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends. Joseph Conrad judging friendship men One ship is very much like another and the sea is always the same. In the immutability of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past, veiled not by a sense of mystery but by a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence and as inscrutable as Destiny. Joseph Conrad destiny ignorance past There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind. Joseph Conrad misery moral intellectual Everything can be found at sea according to the spirit of your quest. Joseph Conrad quests spirit sea The question is not how to get cured, but how to live. Joseph Conrad All a man can betray is his conscience. Joseph Conrad betrayal betrayed men You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget. Joseph Conrad hate lying world It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome. Joseph Conrad majority eye life
