„Mistah Kurtz--he dead.“
— Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
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Joseph Conrad
Geburtstag: 3. Dezember 1857
Todesdatum: 3. August 1924
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Joseph Conrad war ein britischer Schriftsteller polnischer Herkunft. Er gilt als einer der wichtigsten Schriftsteller des 20. Jahrhunderts in England.
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„Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.“
— Joseph Conrad, Chance
Chance (1913) part II, Ch. 5
„It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.“
— Joseph Conrad, An Outcast of the Islands
An Outcast of the Islands (1896), Pt. 3, Ch. 2; possibly an adaptation of a Polish proverb, "Ten się nie myli, kto nic nie robi" — "One is not wrong, who does nothing."
„We live as we dream--alone....“
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
„It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.“
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
„Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing.“
— Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer and other stories
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„To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.“
— Joseph Conrad
Context: Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
Pt. I
„All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it.“
— Joseph Conrad
Context: All idealization makes life poorer. To beautify it is to take away its character of complexity — it is to destroy it. Leave that to the moralists, my boy. History is made by men, but they do not make it in their heads. The ideas that are born in their consciousness play an insignificant part in the march of events. History is dominated and determined by the tool and the production — by the force of economic conditions. Capitalism has made socialism, and the laws made by the capitalist for the protection of property are responsible for anarchism. No one can tell what form the social organisation may take in the future. Then why indulge in prophetic phantasies? At best they can only interpret the mind of the prophet, and can have no objective value. Leave that pastime to the moralists, my boy.
Ch. 3
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„All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force.“
— Joseph Conrad
Context: All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force. And madness and despair are a force. And force is a crime in the eyes of the fools, the weak and the silly who rule the roost. You are mediocre. Verloc, whose affair the police has managed to smother so nicely, was mediocre. And the police murdered him. He was mediocre. Everybody is mediocre. Madness and despair! Give me that for a lever, and I'll move the world. Ossipon, you have my cordial scorn. You are incapable of conceiving even what the fat-fed citizen would call a crime. You have no force.
Ch. 13
„The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.“
— Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes
Pt. II, ch. 4
