Joseph Conrad on Time
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Joseph Conrad, catalogued under time, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Joseph Conrad, entry #136556: "I had been six years at sea, but had only seen Melbourne and Sydney, very good places, charming places in their way — but Bankok!"
Attributed to Joseph Conrad, entry #155286: "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! — Ni…"
3 Quotes by Joseph Conrad on Time
"I had been six years at sea, but had only seen Melbourne and Sydney, very good places, charming places in their way — but Bankok!"
"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! — Night — Goodbye!"
"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."