My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel โ it is, before all, to make you see. That โ and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm โ all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.
Joseph ConradItโs extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps itโs just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.
Joseph ConradAnd perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.
Joseph Conrad