Joseph Conrad citáty

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„Přísně vzato je jen jeden druh knih, který zvětšuje štěstí na zemi - kuchařské knihy.“

„Vyhýbejte se lidem, kteří s vámi vždy souhlasí.“

„I ten nejzchytralejší spisovatel vyzradí sebe a svůj mravní názor aspoň v každé třetí větě.“

„Být ženou není lehký úděl, stále přichází do styku s muži.“

„Pomlouvání je neřest, již si každý odpírá, jež vsak každého baví.“

„Marnivost přikazuje paměti páchat nejrůznější kousky.“

“A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.”

“I had been six years at sea, but had only seen Melbourne and Sydney, very good places, charming places in their way — but Bankok!”

“There is no peace and no rest in the development of material interests. They have their law, and their justice. But it is founded on expediency, and is inhuman; it is without rectitude, without the continuity and the force that can be found only in a moral principal.”

“Only a moment; a moment of strength, of romance, of glamour — of youth!… A flick of sunshine upon a strange shore, the time to remember, the time for a sigh, and — goodbye!”

“Socialism must inevitably end in Caesarism. ... Disestablishment, Land Reform, Universival Brotherhood are but like milestones on the road to ruin.”

“The cabman looked at the pieces of silver, which, appearing very minute in his big, grimy palm, symbolised the insignificant results which reward the ambitious courage and toil of a mankind whose day is short on this earth of evil.”