Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim

Quotes

• “I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life f...”
• “My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, b...”
• “How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by ...”
• “It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.”