Joseph Conrad Quotes About History

Quotes about: History

• What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history.

  Joseph Conrad

  Strong, Pride, Reality

  Joseph Conrad “The Complete Works of Joseph Conrad”, Library of Alexandria

• Few men realize that their life, the very essence of their character, their capabilities and their audacities, are only the expression of their belief in the safety of their surroundings.

  Joseph Conrad

  Art, Philosophy, Character

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Joseph Conrad The Dover Reader”, p.155, Courier Corporation

• History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.

  Joseph Conrad

  Song, Art, History

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad’s Sea Tales - Premium Collection: An Outcast of the Islands, The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’, A Smile of Fortune, Typhoon and more: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.1238, e-artnow

• Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end.

  Joseph Conrad

  Men, Race, History

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Greatest Works of Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness, Nostromo, The Duel, Lord Jim, Victory, The Shadow-Line, The Arrow of Gold, The Secret Agent, The Nigger of the Narcissus & Under Western Eyes: Classics of World Literature from One of the Greatest English Novelists (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.454, e-artnow

• Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing.

  Joseph Conrad

  History, Fiction, Humans

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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