50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol Quotes

“But passion most dissembles, yet betrays, Even by its darkness; as the blackest sky Foretells the heaviest tempest.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol: 01 [newly updated]

“Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, For the straight-forward pathway had been lost.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol: 01 [newly updated]

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself. The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol: 01 [newly updated]

“It’s queer how out of touch with truth women are. They live in a world of their own, and there has never been anything like it, and never can be. It is too beautiful altogether, and if they were to set it up it would go to pieces before the first sunset. Some confounded fact we men have been living contentedly with ever since the day of creation would start up and knock the whole thing over.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol: 01 [newly updated]

“One rule holds good of most young men—whether rich or poor. They never have money for the necessaries of life, but they have always money to spare for their caprices—an anomaly which finds its explanation in their youth and in the almost frantic eagerness with which youth grasps at pleasure.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol: 01 [newly updated]

“Things new are too important to be neglected, and mind, which is a mere reflection of sensory impressions, succumbs to the flood of objects. Thus lovers are forgotten, sorrows laid aside, death hidden from view. There is a world of accumulated”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“Be cautious then, young ladies; be wary how you engage. Be shy of loving frankly; never tell all you feel, or (a better way still), feel very little. See the consequences of being prematurely honest and confiding, and mistrust yourselves and everybody. Get yourselves married as they do in France, where the lawyers are the bridesmaids and confidantes. At any rate, never have any feelings which may make you uncomfortable, or make any promises which you cannot at any required moment command and withdraw. That is the way to get on, and be respected, and have a virtuous character in Vanity Fair.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1

“This rose is not so fragrant as a summer flower, but it has stood through hardships none of them could bear: the cold rain of winter has sufficed to nourish it, and its faint sun to warm it; the bleak winds have not blanched it, or broken its stem, and the keen frost has not blighted it.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“Well, never mind that, neighbor Caderousse; it is not worth while to contradict me for such a trifle as that. 'Tis true that Mercedes is not actually my wife; but," added he, drawing out his watch, "in an hour and a half she will be.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1

“Then they began to pass around the dusky, piquant, Arlesian sausages, and lobsters in their dazzling red cuirasses, prawns of large size and brilliant color, the echinus with its prickly outside and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster, — all the delicacies, in fact, that are cast up by the wash of waters on the sandy beach, and styled by the grateful fishermen "fruits of the sea.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1

“Well, then, I should say, for instance," resumed Danglars, "that if after a voyage such as Dantes has just made, in which he touched at the Island of Elba, some one were to denounce him to the king's procureur as a Bonapartist agent" — "I will denounce him!" exclaimed the young man hastily. "Yes, but they will make you then sign your declaration, and confront you with him you have denounced; I will supply you with the means of supporting your accusation, for I know the fact well.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1

“Dantes, my friend, you are not yet registered number one on board the good ship Pharaon;" then turning towards Edmond, who was walking away, "A pleasant journey," he cried.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1

“Well, Fernand, I must say," said Caderousse, beginning the conversation, with that brutality of the common people in which curiosity destroys all diplomacy, "you look uncommonly like a rejected lover;" and he burst into a hoarse laugh.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1

“Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light had begun to ebb, the air had grown mellow, the shadows were long upon the smooth, dense turf. They lengthened slowly, however, and the scene expressed that sense of leisure still to come which is perhaps the chief source of one’s enjoyment of such a scene at such an hour.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“best way to adore God is to love one’s wife.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“and then something else, I knew not what, made me sad. It bored me to be sad. I shook myself. What was the matter? Nothing. Only myself.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“for the future he knows only by guesswork, and that not always; for it is reserved for God alone to know the times and the seasons, and for him there is neither past nor future; all is present.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“he knew very well we were all mortal,”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol: 01 [newly updated]

“flag for an instant, so that the princess, who”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol: 01 [newly updated]

“If I went out with a couple of rifles and a gun bearer, and twenty or thirty beaters, to hunt a lion, I should not feel that the lion had much chance, and so the pleasure of the hunt would be lessened in proportion to the increased safety which I felt.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“With the enemy's approach to Moscow, the Moscovites' view of their situation did not grow more serious but on the contrary became even more frivolous, as always happens with people who see a great danger approaching. At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal power in the human soul: one very reasonably tells a man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of escaping it; the other, still more reasonably, says that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger, since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general course of events, and it is therefore better to disregard what is painful till it comes, and to think about what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally listens to the first voice, but in society to the second. So it was now with the inhabitants of Moscow. It was long since people had been as gay in Moscow as that year.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol: 01 [newly updated]

“It is silly of you, for there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol: 01 [newly updated]

“Whenever I have gone there, there have been either so many people that I have not been able to see the pictures, which was dreadful, or so many pictures that I have not been able to see the people, which was worse.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces You Have To Read Before You Die Vol: 01 [newly updated]

“void”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“for conceit spoils the finest genius.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“Give them all of my dear love and a kiss. Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at all times.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

“The truth travels over the earth secretly; it seeks a nest among the people. To the authorities it’s like a knife in the fire. They cannot accept it. It will cut them and burn them. Truth is your good friend and a sworn enemy of the authorities — that’s why it hides itself.”
― Joseph Conrad, 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1