Quote #27
In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.
More from Joseph Conrad
- Reality, as usual, beats fiction out of sight.
- A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.
- Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life!!
- 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…
- 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…
- This could have occurred nowhere but in England, where men and sea interpenetrate, so to speak.
- 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.
- I had been six years at sea, but had only seen Melbourne and Sydney, very good places, charming places in their way - but Bankok!