Quote #26
Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
More from Joseph Conrad
- Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life!!
- In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.
- He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality whi…
- A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
- The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
- For the great mass of mankind the only saving grace that is needed is steady fidelity to what is nearest to hand and heart in the short mom…
- Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.
- This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak.