In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
Joseph ConradIt is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.
Joseph ConradThe artist appeals to that part of our being...which is a gift and not an acquisition - and, therefore, more permanently enduring.
Joseph ConradIt is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is human, soon takes upon itself a face of pain; and some of our griefs (some only, not all, for it is the capacity for suffering which makes man August in the eyes of men) have their source in weaknesses which must be recognized with smiling com passion as the common inheritance of us all.
Joseph Conrad