Joseph Conrad Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)
Joseph Conrad quotes and sayings page 3 (deceased novelist born on Dec 3, 1857). Here's quote # 21 through 30 out of the 54 we have for him.
“Going home must be like going to render an account.”
“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.”
“Don't you forget what's divine in the Russian soul and that's resignation.”
“In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.”
“A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.”
“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.”
“The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.”
“A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.”
“It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.”
“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?”
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