Joseph Conrad

There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

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