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Joseph Conrad, pseudonyme de Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski herb. Nałęcz, est né le 3 décembre 1857 à Berditchev et mort le 3 août 1924 à Bishopsbourne . D'origine polonaise, il est un écrivain de langue anglaise majeur du XXe siècle. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. décembre 1857 – 3. août 1924
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“Nos canaux sont en train de filer, capitaine.”

Typhon, 1903

Joseph Conrad: Citations en anglais

“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go”

Joseph Conrad livre Au cœur des ténèbres

Source: Heart of Darkness

“His face was like the autumn sky, overcast one moment and bright the next.”

Joseph Conrad livre Au cœur des ténèbres

Source: Heart of Darkness

“What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.”

Letter to Robert Cunninghame-Graham (January 1898), published in The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, edited by Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies, Vol. 2, p. 30. ISBN 0521257484

“In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.”

The Arrow of Gold http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/argld10h.htm (1919), Author's note,

“The future is of our own making — and (for me) the most striking characteristic of the century is just that development, that maturing of our consciousness which should open our eyes to that truth.”

Letter to H. G. Wells (February 1902), published in The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, edited by Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies, Vol. 2, p. 509

“It is not the clear-sighted who lead the world. Great achievements are accomplished in a blessed, warm mental fog.”

Victory: An Island Tale http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6378/6378-h/6378-h.htm (1915), Part II, ch. 3

“Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.”

Joseph Conrad livre Under Western Eyes

Pt. I, ch. 3
Under Western Eyes (1911)

“He feared neither God, nor devil, nor man, nor wind, nor sea, nor his own conscience. And I believe he hated everybody and everything. But I think he was afraid to die. I believe I am the only man who ever stood up to him.”

Joseph Conrad livre The Shadow Line

Referring to Mr. Burns. Compare to Heart of Darkness' manager: "He was becoming confidential now, but I fancy my unresponsive attitude must have exasperated him at last, for he judged it necessary to inform me he feared neither God nor devil, let alone any mere man. I said I could see that very well..."
The Shadow Line (1915)

“A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.”

Joseph Conrad livre Nostromo

Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 1
Often misquoted as "A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
Nostromo (1904)

“"God for men — religions for women," he muttered sometimes.”

Joseph Conrad livre Nostromo

Part First: The Silver of the Mine, Ch. 4
Nostromo (1904)

“Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.”

Joseph Conrad livre Nostromo

Part First: The Silver of the Mine, Ch. 6
Nostromo (1904)

“One must have lived on such diet to discover what ghastly trouble the necessity of swallowing one's food become.”

Joseph Conrad livre An Outpost of Progress

Tales of Unrest http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1202/1202-h/1202-h.htm. An Outpost of Progress (1902)

“She strode like a grenadier, was strong and upright like an obelisk, had a beautiful face, a candid brow, pure eyes, and not a thought of her own in her head.”

Joseph Conrad livre The Return

Tales of Unrest http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1202/1202-h/1202-h.htm. The Return (1902)

“This stretch of the Thames from London Bridge to the Albert Docks is to other watersides of river ports what a virgin forest would be to a garden. It is a thing grown up, not made. It recalls a jungle by the confused, varied, and impenetrable aspect of the buildings that line the shore, not according to a planned purpose, but as if sprung up by accident from scattered seeds. Like the matted growth of bushes and creepers veiling the silent depths of an unexplored wilderness, they hide the depths of London’s infinitely varied, vigorous, seething life. In other river ports it is not so. They lie open to their stream, with quays like broad clearings, with streets like avenues cut through thick timber for the convenience of trade… But London, the oldest and greatest of river ports, does not possess as much as a hundred yards of open quays upon its river front. Dark and impenetrable at night, like the face of a forest, is the London waterside. It is the waterside of watersides, where only one aspect of the world’s life can be seen, and only one kind of men toils on the edge of the stream. The lightless walls seem to spring from the very mud upon which the stranded barges lie; and the narrow lanes coming down to the foreshore resemble the paths of smashed bushes and crumbled earth where big game comes to drink on the banks of tropical streams.Behind the growth of the London waterside the docks of London spread out unsuspected, smooth, and placid, lost amongst the buildings like dark lagoons hidden in a thick forest. They lie concealed in the intricate growth of houses with a few stalks of mastheads here and there overtopping the roof of some four-story warehouse.”

Joseph Conrad livre The Mirror of the Sea

London Bridge to the Royal Albert Dock
The Mirror of the Sea (1906), On the River Thames, Ch. 16

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