As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.
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Joseph Conrad
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About Joseph Conrad
Joseph Conrad was a Polish-British novelist and story writer. He is regarded as one of the greatest writers in the English language and – though he did not speak English fluently until his twenties – he became a master prose stylist who brought a non-English sensibility into English literature.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Joseph ConradBeing a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one wi…
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth.
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness …
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.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
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To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
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.
It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
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.
The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness …
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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 belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life.
Going home must be like going to render an account.
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.