Joseph Conrad Quotes About Desire

• He luchado con la muerte. Es el combate menos emocionante que se pueda imaginar. Tiene lugar en una grisura impalpable, sin nada bajo los pies, sin nada alrededor, sin espectadores, sin clamor, sin gloria, sin el gran deseo de la victoria, sin el gran temor de la derrota, en una atmósfera enfermiza de tibio escepticismo, sin creer mucho en tu propio derecho, y menos aún en el de tu adversario.

  Joseph Conrad

  Victory, Desire, Belief

  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.77, e-artnow

• Todos los caminos son largos y conducen al deseo de nuestro corazón.

  Joseph Conrad

  Corazón, Largo, Deseo

• That faculty of beholding at a hint the face of his desire and the shape of his dream, without which the earth would know no lover and no adventurer.

  Joseph Conrad

  Dream, Adventure, Desire

  Lord Jim ch. 16 (1900)

• For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of that desire made them defy death in a thousand shapes; the unknown seas, the loathsome diseases; wounds, captivity, hunger, pestilence and despair. It made them great! By heavens! It made them heroic; and it made them pathetic, too, in their craving for trade with the inflexible death levying its toll on young and old

  Joseph Conrad

  Cutting, Sea, Heaven

  Joseph Conrad (2014). “Joseph Conrad: Selected Novels”, p.284, Anthem Press

• claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of creating flat land for development To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.

  Joseph Conrad

  Land, Practice, Creating

• They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

  Joseph Conrad

  Stupid, Safety, Perfect

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.77, Xist Publishing

• Nunca había visto nada parecido al cambio que se produjo en sus facciones, y espero no volver a verlo jamás. No me conmovió. Estaba fascinado. Fue como si se hubiera rasgado un velo. Vi en aquel rostro de marfil la expresión de un orgullo sombrío, de un poder despiadado, de un terror cobarde... de una desesperación intensa y desesperanzada. ¿Vivió de nuevo su vida en cada detalle de deseo, tentación y entrega durante aquel momento supremo de completo conocimiento? Gritó en un susurro ante alguna imagen, ante alguna visión... gritó dos veces, un grito que no fue más que un suspiro: ¡El horror! ¡El horror!

  Joseph Conrad

  Struggle, Pride, Expression

  Heart of Darkness ch. 3 (1902)

• I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

  Joseph Conrad

  Stupid, Laughing, Desire

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Joseph Conrad Ultimate Collection: 18 Novels, 20+ Short Stories, Letters & Memoirs: Including Classics like Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, The Duel, The Secret Agent, Nostromo, Victory, The Shadow-Line & Under Western Eyes”, p.4241, e-artnow

• There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt.

  Joseph Conrad

  Desire, Enough Time, Our Love

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