Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.


Joseph Conrad

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Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men.
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JOSEPH CONRAD
Exterminate all brutes
JOSEPH CONRAD
The future is of our own making - and the most striking characteristic of the century is just that d...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Remember, Razumov, that women, children, and revolutionists hate irony, which is the negation of all...
JOSEPH CONRAD
No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s ex...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
JOSEPH CONRAD
I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality ever...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, s...
JOSEPH CONRAD
It was unearthly, and the men were--No, they were not inhuman. Well, you know, that was the worst of...
JOSEPH CONRAD
In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a cont...
JOSEPH CONRAD
An author writes only half the book. The rest is written by readers.
JOSEPH CONRAD
The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it...
JOSEPH CONRAD
All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you in...
JOSEPH CONRAD
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestio...
JOSEPH CONRAD
The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost...
JOSEPH CONRAD
There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembod...
JOSEPH CONRAD
In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom
JOSEPH CONRAD
It is respectable to have illusions - and safe - and profitable, and dull
JOSEPH CONRAD
Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory
JOSEPH CONRAD
Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a mathematical imagin...
JOSEPH CONRAD
The mind of man is capable of anything because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the ...
JOSEPH CONRAD
I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possib...
JOSEPH CONRAD
For every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early, and the human race come to a...
JOSEPH CONRAD
It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose
JOSEPH CONRAD
God is for men and religion is for women
JOSEPH CONRAD
I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could las...
JOSEPH CONRAD
It occurred to me that my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a mere futility
JOSEPH CONRAD
As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wa...
JOSEPH CONRAD
We live, as we dream alone
JOSEPH CONRAD
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary: men alone are quite capable of every w...
JOSEPH CONRAD