Joseph Conrad cytaty (174 cytatów, strona 3)

To follow the dream, and again to follow the dream – and so – always – usque ad finem… (ang.)
Lord Jim
Źródło: Lord Jim, t. II, r. XXXV, Warszawa 1904, s. 137, tłum. Emilia Węsławska.

„Morze podobne jest sercu kobiety.”

Joseph Conrad

Źródło: Leksykon złotych myśli, wyboru dokonał Krzysztof Nowak, Warszawa 1998.

„Miłość jest to barwa na aksamitnym kwiecie. Patrz i używaj z daleka. Gdy go ściśniesz w palcach, zostanie plama i cały wdzięk przepadnie.”

Joseph Conrad

Źródło: Zofia Reutt-Witkowska, Studja nad utworami dramatycznemi Korzeniowskiego, tom 3, Nakł. Gebethnera i Wolffa, s. 89.

„Prawdziwym życiem człowieka jest to, że żyje on w myślach innych ludzi.”

Joseph Conrad

Źródło: Henryk Gaertner, Rodzinne rodowody

„Biada człowiekowi, którego serce nie nauczyło się za młodu ufać, kochać – i pokładać w życiu nadzieję!”

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„Prawdziwa mądrość nie jest pewna niczego na tym pełnym sprzeczności świecie.”

Joseph Conrad

„Nie lubię pracy – żaden człowiek jej nie lubi. Lubię jednak to, co daje praca – szanse odnalezienia siebie, własnej rzeczywistości.”

Joseph Conrad

Joseph Conrad: Cytaty po angielsku

“For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.”

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Joseph Conrad książka Jądro ciemności

Źródło: Heart of Darkness

“The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after all? Joy, fear, sorrow, devotion, valor, rage--who can tell?--but
truth--truth stripped of its cloak of time.”

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Joseph Conrad książka Jądro ciemności

Źródło: Heart of Darkness

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

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Joseph Conrad książka Jądro ciemności

Źródło: Heart of Darkness

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

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Joseph Conrad książka Jądro ciemności

Źródło: Heart of Darkness

“The Westerly Wind asserting his sway from the south-west quarter is often like a monarch gone mad, driving forth with wild imprecations the most faithful of his courtiers to shipwreck, disaster, and death.”

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Joseph Conrad książka The Mirror of the Sea

Źródło: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 26

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

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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

“Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love — and to put its trust in life!!”

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Joseph Conrad książka Victory

Victory: An Island Tale, part IV, Ch. 14

“Nobody ever comes back from a "missing" ship to tell how hard was the death of the craft, and how sudden and overwhelming the last anguish of her men. Nobody can say with what thoughts, with what regrets, with what words on their lips they died. But there is something fine in the sudden passing away of these hearts from the extremity of struggle and stress and tremendous uproar—from the vast, unrestful rage of the surface to the profound peace of the depths, sleeping untroubled since the beginning of ages.”

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Joseph Conrad książka The Mirror of the Sea

Źródło: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 17

“I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.”

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Joseph Conrad książka Under Western Eyes

Pt. I
Under Western Eyes (1911)

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

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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.”

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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

“His name was Jermyn, and he dodged all day long about the galley drying his handkerchief before the stove. Apparently he never slept. He was a dismal man, with a perpetual tear sparkling at the end of his nose, who either had been in trouble, or was in trouble, or expected to be in trouble — couldn't be happy unless something went wrong. He mistrusted my youth, my common-sense, and my seamanship, and made a point of showing it in a hundred little ways. I dare say he was right. It seems to me I knew very little then, and I know not much more now; but I cherish a hate for that Jermyn to this day.”

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Youth, A Narrative http://www.gutenberg.org/files/525/525.txt (1902)

“Efficiency of a practically flawless kind may be reached naturally in the struggle for bread. But there is something beyond — a higher point, a subtle and unmistakable touch of love and pride beyond mere skill; almost an inspiration which gives to all work that finish which is almost art — which is art.”

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Joseph Conrad książka The Mirror of the Sea

Źródło: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 7

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

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

“The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery.”

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Joseph Conrad książka Typhoon

Typhoon (1902), Ch. 2

“The East Wind, an interloper in the dominions of Westerly weather, is an impassive-faced tyrant with a sharp poniard held behind his back for a treacherous stab.”

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Joseph Conrad książka The Mirror of the Sea

Źródło: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 28

“Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralyzing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a man struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.”

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Joseph Conrad książka Nostromo

Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 8
Nostromo (1904)

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

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Joseph Conrad książka 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.”

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Joseph Conrad książka 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.”

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Joseph Conrad książka 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)

“The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement — but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.”

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Joseph Conrad książka Under Western Eyes

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

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

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Joseph Conrad książka Nostromo

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