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The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.


Joseph Conrad

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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