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• The revolutionary spirit is mighty convenient in this, that it frees one from all scruples as regards ideas. Its hard absolute optimism is repulsive to my mind by the menace of fanaticism and intolerance it contains. No doubt one should smile at these things; but, imperfect Esthete, I am no better Philosopher. All claim to special righteousness awakens in me that scorn and anger from which a philosophical mind should be free.

  Joseph Conrad

  Philosophical, Ideas, Optimism

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Personal Record”, p.9, Booklassic

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• Certain streets have an atmosphere of their own, a sort of universal fame and the particular affection of their citizens. One of such streets is the Cannebiere, and the jest: "If Paris had a Cannebiere, it would be a little Marseilles" is the jocular expression of municipal pride. I, too, I have been under the spell. For me it has been a street leading into the unknown.

  Joseph Conrad

  Book, Pride, Paris

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “The Arrow of Gold”, p.7, Joseph Conrad

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• The word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew through it all, like a whiff from some corpse. By Jove! I've never seen anything so unreal in my life. And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic invasion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Thinking, Air, Ivory

  Joseph Conrad (2002). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, p.125, Oxford University Press, USA

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• You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all can you condemn an artist pursuing, however humbly and imperfectly, a creative aim. In that interior world where his thought and his emotions go seeking for the experience of imagined adventures, there are no policemen, no law, no pressure of circumstance or dread of opinion to keep him within bounds. Who then is going to say Nay to his temptations if not his conscience?

  Joseph Conrad

  Integrity, Adventure, Men

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Lord Jim (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): A Classic Novel of Guilt and Atonement From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Secret Agent & Under Western Eyes (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.302, e-artnow

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• Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war as well?...It would have been so much nicer just to sail about, with here and there a port and a bit of land to stretch one's legs on, buy a few books and get a change of cooking for a while.

  Joseph Conrad

  War, Book, Sea

  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.301, e-artnow

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• Mathematics commands all my respect, but I have no use for engines.

  Joseph Conrad

  Use, Levers, Mathematics

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.4269, e-artnow

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• For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short moment of each human effort.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, Hands, Effort

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Notes on Life and Letters”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.

  Joseph Conrad

  Enemy, Literature, Action

  Nostromo (1904) pt. 1, ch. 6

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• When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.

  Joseph Conrad

  Hate, Darkness, Savages

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.36, eKitap Projesi

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• Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.

  Joseph Conrad

  Suicidal, Mean, Thinking

  Joseph Conrad “The Secret Sharer and Other Stories”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• For there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself, which is the mistress of his existence.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sea, Mistress, Mysterious

  Joseph Conrad (2008). “Heart of Darkness and Other Tales”, OUP Oxford

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• He hated all this, and somehow he couldn't get away.

  Joseph Conrad

  Get Away, Hated

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “The Complete Novels of Joseph Conrad - All 20 Works in One Premium Edition: Including Unforgettable Titles like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Under Western Eyes and Many More (With Author’s Letters, Memoirs and Critical Essays)”, p.584, e-artnow

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• There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principle.

  Joseph Conrad

  Law, Justice, Principles

  Joseph Conrad (1996). “Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard”, p.341, Wordsworth Editions

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• The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

  Joseph Conrad

  Ocean, Savages, Spoiled

  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.609, e-artnow

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• The condemned social order has not been built up on paper and ink, and I don't fancy that a combination of paper and ink will ever put an end to it.

  Joseph Conrad

  Order, Ink, Paper

  Joseph Conrad (2007). “The Secret Agent”, p.46, Penguin

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• I have been called romantic. Well, that can't be helped. But stay. I seem to remember that I have been called a realist also. And as that charge too can be made out, let us try to live up to it, at whatever cost, for a change.

  Joseph Conrad

  Trying, Cost, Remember

  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.359, e-artnow

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• Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.

  Joseph Conrad

  Philosophy, Issues, Interesting

  "African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations". Book by George Yancy, p. 35, 1998.

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• An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Men, Issues

  Joseph Conrad (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Conrad (Illustrated)”, p.5242, Delphi Classics

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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

  Government, Coins, Literature

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.25, Joseph Conrad

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• I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Air, Mouths

  Joseph Conrad (2004). “The Heart of Darkness (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.42, Sparklesoup LLC

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• All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity. They can hurt no one.

  Joseph Conrad

  Hurt, Ambition, Intellectual

  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.1118, e-artnow

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• The artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.

  Joseph Conrad

  Artist, Acquisition, Appeals

  The Nigger of the Narcissus preface (1897)

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• The vision seemed to enter the house with me-the stretcher, the phantom-bearers, the wild crowd of obedient worshippers, the gloom of the forests, the glitter of the reach between the murky bends, the beat of the drum, regular and muffled like the beating of a heart-the heart of a conquering darkness.

  Joseph Conrad

  Heart, House, Darkness

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Silly, Beer

  Joseph Conrad (2006). “Heart of Darkness and Other Stories”, p.122, Collector's Library

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• Being myself animated by feelings of affection toward my fellowmen, I am saddened by the modern system of advertising. Whatever evidence it offers of enterprise, ingenuity, impudence, and resource in certain individuals, it proves to my mind the wide prevalence of that form of mental degradation which is called gullibility.

  Joseph Conrad

  Sadness, Feelings, Mind

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “A Set of Six”, p.103, Sheba Blake Publishing

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