The Nigger of the Narcissus and the Secret Sharer Quotes

“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the Narcissus and the Secret Sharer

“Any work aspiring to be art however humble should carry its justification in every line.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Nigger of the Narcissus and the Secret Sharer