Joseph Conrad

There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#enticing #life #more #nothing #sea

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#dirt #finds #heap #his #keep

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#enjoys #everybody #gossip #like

To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#being #clear #every #existence #him

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#appears #comes #languages #man #many

Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#face #facing #get #through #way

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#heart #hope #learned #life #man

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#hugs #illusion #knows #loneliness #lonely

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

— Joseph Conrad

#dream #fear #just #life #perhaps

They talk of a man betraying his country, his friends, his sweetheart. There must be a moral bond first. All a man can betray is his conscience. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#betraying #bond #conscience #country #first