A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.
Source: Lord Jim (1900)
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British · 1857-1924 · 17 quotes
British · 1857–1924
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Joseph Conrad was the Polish-born British novelist who wrote in English — his third language, after Polish and French — and produced some of the most searching accounts of imperialism, moral ambiguity, and the darkness of human motivation in modern fiction. Born Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski in 1857 in what is now Ukraine, he went to sea at seventeen, became a British merchant officer, and began writing in his thirties. Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Nostromo, The Secret Agent, and Under Western Eyes are the major novels — each one turning on the question of what men do when the structures that hold them to civilised behavior are removed. His writing style is dense and cumulative, bearing the mark of someone who had thought carefully about every word in a language he had mastered late. He died in 1924, two years after refusing a knighthood.
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A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.
The horror! The horror!
The wilderness without a sound took him into its bosom again.
It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core....
The wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion.
It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.
The mind of man is capable of anything—because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
The earth seemed unearthly.
What redeems it is the idea only. An idea at the back of it; not a sentimental pretence but an idea.
It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind.
Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.