{"author":"Joseph Conrad","author_id":"Joseph+Conrad","total_quotes":191,"quotes":[{"text":"He was there below me, and, upon my word, to look at him was as edifying as seeing a dog in a parody of breeches and a featherhat, walking on his hind legs.","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["fiction","racism"],"id":7619,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"Facing it-always facing it-that's the way to get through. Face it!","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["courage"],"id":8259,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"We return to face our superiors, our kindred, our friends--- those whom we obey, and those whom we love; but even they who have neither, the most free, lonely, irresponsible and bereft of ties, --- even those for whom home holds no dear face, no familiar voice, --- even they have to meet the spirit that dwells within the land, under its sky, in its air, in its valleys, and on its rises, in its fields, in its waters and its tress--- a mute friend, judge, and inspirer. Say what you like, to get its joy, to breathe its peace, to face its truth, one must return with a clear conscience. All this may seem to you sheer sentimentalism; and indeed very few of us have the will or capacity to look consciously under the surface of familiar emotions.There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["freedom","individuality"],"id":9444,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"I take it that what all men are really after is some form of  perhaps only some formula of  peace.","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["motivation"],"id":11714,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality every man sets up for himself secretly.","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["managing","people-skills","personality","self"],"id":12501,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"All my moral and intellectual being is penetrated by an invincible conviction that whatever falls under the dominion of our senses must be in nature and, however exceptional, cannot differ in its essence from all the other effects of the visible and tangible world of which we are a self-conscious part. The world of the living contains enough marvels and mysteries as it is—marvels and mysteries acting upon our emotions and intelligence in ways so inexplicable that it would almost justify the conception of life as an enchanted state. No, I am too firm in my consciousness of the marvelous to be ever fascinated by the mere supernatural which . . . Is but a manufactured article, the fabrication of minds insensitive to the intimate delicacies of our relation to the dead and to the living, in their countless multitudes; a desecration of our tenderest memories; an outrage on our dignity.","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["humanism","naturalism","philosophy","religion"],"id":17219,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["atheism","blame","desperate","enemies","friends","guilt","hate","immortality","lifeboat","loneliness","love","mental-illness","mortality","society","stranded"],"id":19320,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"It was a dark story.","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["adultery","dark","death","kidnapping","marriage","ominous","pirate","short","theft"],"id":22456,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["classic","fiction","marlow"],"id":26115,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"},{"text":"I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who is it they would trust with their lives?--they would say, Tuan Jim. And yet they can never know the real, real truth....","author":"Joseph Conrad","tags":["anxiety","anxiety-disorders","burden","cowardly","emotional-wounds","guilty-conscience","haunted","haunting","hypocrisy","monster-under-the-bed","monsters-of-men","ptsd","secret","self-hate","sinful-nature","why-we-need-jesus","wounded-souls","wounds-to-the-heart"],"id":27929,"author_id":"Joseph+Conrad"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":191,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}