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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

Men

Peace

Formula

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

Joseph Conrad

Gossip

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.

For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.

Going home must be like going to render an account.

Joseph Conrad

Home

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.

History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

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

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

Ambition

Man

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

Joseph Conrad

Order

Sensibility

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

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

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.