„Být ženou je hrozně těžká věc, protože obvykle musí žít s muži.“
[(en) Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.]
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“Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.”
Joseph Conrad
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Chance
Zdroj: Chance (1913) part II, Ch. 5
“We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.”
Joseph Conrad
kniha
Heart of Darkness
Zdroj: Heart of Darkness
“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”
Joseph Conrad
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An Outcast of the Islands
Zdroj: 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."
“It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”
Joseph Conrad
kniha
Heart of Darkness
Zdroj: Heart of Darkness
“Facing it — always facing it — that's the way to get through.”
Joseph Conrad
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Typhoon
Typhoon (1902), Ch. 5
“We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness”
Joseph Conrad
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Heart of Darkness
Zdroj: Heart of Darkness
“The sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.”
Joseph Conrad
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The Mirror of the Sea
Zdroj: The Mirror of the Sea (1906), Ch. 35
Kontext: For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed to feel for it, for all the celebrations it had been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Letter (March 1890), published in The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, edited by Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies, Vol. 1, p. 43 ISBN 0521242169
Command at Sea: the Prestige, Privilege and Burden of Command
Zdroj: The Secret Sharer and other stories
Joseph Conrad
Lord Jim
Varianta: My task is to make you hear, to make you feel, and, above all, to make you see. That is all, and it is everything.
Zdroj: Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
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The Secret Agent
Zdroj: The Secret Agent (1907), Ch. 3
Kontext: 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.
“All passion is lost now. The world is mediocre, limp, without force.”
Joseph Conrad
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The Secret Agent
Zdroj: The Secret Agent (1907), Ch. 13
Kontext: 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.
Joseph Conrad
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Under Western Eyes
Pt. I
Under Western Eyes (1911)
Kontext: 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.
“Your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.”
Joseph Conrad
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Heart of Darkness
Zdroj: Heart of Darkness
“The mind of man is capable of anything.”
Joseph Conrad
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Heart of Darkness
Zdroj: Heart of Darkness
