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Joseph Conrad Quotes - Page 2

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1113, e-artnow

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 (2015). “Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.185, e-artnow

We live as we dream - alone.

Heart of Darkness ch. 1 (1902)

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1113, e-artnow

The mind of man is capable of anything.

Joseph Conrad (2009). “Heart of Darkness Thrift Study Edition”, p.32, Courier Corporation

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

Joseph Conrad (2012). “Heart of Darkness: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.41, Penguin

The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.

Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.302, McClure, Phillips & Company

Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

"Under Western Eyes". Book by Joseph Conrad, pt. IV, ch. 2, 1911.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Napoleonic Novels: The Rover & Suspense: From the Renowned Author of The Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent and Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.400, e-artnow

The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.

Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.346, e-artnow

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

Joseph Conrad (2016). “Lord Jim”, p.166, Joseph Conrad

What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.

Joseph Conrad (2011). “Joseph Conrad's Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham”, p.70, Cambridge University Press