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lawrence_wray: Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. - Joseph Conrad
trutherbotprop: "He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense. . . Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world."
--Joseph Conrad
ChadSchimke: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
Porellana8: As announced last week, our next Evergreen read following Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad will be Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West. This 1985 epic novel has previously been read by r/bookclub in 2011, 2012 and 2014.
RAceved02506380: The Brazilian edition of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness is a dense and complex read. It is not a fast-paced novel, and it may be difficult for some readers to fully understand the plot. However
AngeliaVang15: Africa's literary heritage is rich and diverse, spanning centuries of history. Classic African Literature includes works by authors such as Chinua Achebe, Joseph Conrad and Margaret Atwood.
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Federico17zY: The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World NWWLK48
ZainabNChattha1: 'All a man can betray is his conscience.'
- Joseph Conrad
DENISKI19097191: It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun.,Joseph Conrad,homo, sapiens,
nj8117: Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.,Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer,fear, invention, necessity,
johnndo72230281: The sea, perhaps because of its saltiness, roughens the outside but keeps sweet the kernel of its servants' soul.,Joseph Conrad,sailors, sea,
TomGirard: ICYMI my review of Heart Of Darkness (and other tales) by Joseph Conrad…
MarcusBromton: Under Western Eyes by Joseph Conrad
TomGirard: Heart Of Darkness and other tales by Joseph Conrad
salems__thot: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is book about never giving up and following your dreams
EwanGleadow: 16. Joseph Conrad - Heart of Darkness
The message and few lines of memorable quality are still far more important and interesting than the prose itself. Conrad's writing gives the agony and slow-pacing some presence, but the horror comes from the fractured pieces, not the whole.
northernave: 3 of 5 stars to Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
RavacholArthur: Joseph Conrad enjoying a ciggie in a deckchair
iamsaintjerome: If you’re not already, add the following to your vibe/R&B/chill/freaky playlist:
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Josh Levi
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PatrickZircher: Remember in Dahl's Matilda they changed "She went on olden-day sailing ships with Joseph Conrad. She went to Africa with Ernest Hemingway and to India with Rudyard Kipling" to (cont)
jeffrey_wick: Joseph Conrad Park Jr. is remembered.
IWOSCwriter: Transitions. Like Joseph Conrad, author Recio puts characters in situations different from his own experiences but suitable to trigger the same or very similar set of emotions when dealing with those situations.
nowhere1237: "One get attached in a way to people one has done something for." - Joseph Conrad, Victory, An Island Tale
monai1234512345: Summary of “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad
amy_surplice: Joseph Conrad: I'm Polish; I think I'll write in English.
Samuel Beckett: I'm Irish; I think I'll write in French.
Politician: I'M FLORIDIAN. I THINK I'LL WRITE IN ALL CAPS!
PaulVICatholic: Mrs. Kiernan's AP Literature students recently displayed their understanding of the text, artistic skills, and creativity through their sketch notes of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness.
williechunderan: "A funny thing ~ life, mysterious, pursuing insignificant goals with ruthless logic. The most that a person can get from her is the knowledge of himself, which comes too late and brings eternal regrets."
~ Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness.
medhurstqlm: Joseph Conrad: The Complete Works DECI0R0
MondongoFacts: «Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.» Joseph Conrad
tolivewouldbe: Geography and Some Explorers by Joseph Conrad
marionebridge: How could you omit Joseph Conrad ?
DanRebellato: Yes they made Agatha Christie’s novels a bit less embarrassing to read now. Everyone running round like someone rewrote Joseph Conrad. She’ll survive guys.
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GamesButAlsoArt: Is this art? The game NBA Live 2003 but with in-game lore by Joseph Conrad.
bronzeagemantis: 36/The fate and destiny of Western or "white man" in the colonies was a special concern of many 19th c liberals, including e.g. Joseph Conrad, which is why so much hatred and obsessive kvetching has been directed at him (Said built theory of "Orientalism" opposing Conrad)
kavsmaina: No fear can stand up to hunger. No patience can wear it out, disgust simply does not exist where hunger does. Any superstitious beliefs you may call principles are less than chaff in a breeze.
Joseph Conrad. Heart of Darkness.
rfowls28: 13. Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
Took me too long to get around to this one but it's of course incredible. Committed to its own strangeness and ambiguity.
MarineCafeBlog: “The sea — this truth must be confessed — has no generosity. No display of manly qualities — courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness — has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.” ~ Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea
DialecticsGod: The Secret Agent by Joseph Conrad is the best source of revolutionary ideas ever produced—the only serious attempt to understand how to actually go about changing the world.
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crimaiota: "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." （Joseph Conrad）
alkkano: «We live, as we dream—alone»
Joseph Conrad.
MarioDeFenza: "the question is not how to get cured, but how to live. ”
Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)
yingstdan: Nostromo, Joseph Conrad - I have trouble with Conrad. He's very good, but I can never get into it, never truly engage. This is a good book, I don't know if I liked it.
maciverton: After a tortuous few weeks, I’ve finally finished reading Nostromo by Joseph Conrad. I bought it about twenty years ago and this was my third attempt. Something lighter next I think.....
northumbriana: Built by J. Laing & Co in Sunderland in 1875. Joseph Conrad was her first mate during her voyages to Australia in 1891-3.
Quotes_For_____: Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us, for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations, our illusions, our fidelity to truth, and our persistent leaning toward error.
- Joseph Conrad
The Mirror of the Sea
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whyguilt: 11. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad - 3/5
12. The Art of War by Sun Tzu - 5/5
13. Jaws by Peter Benchley - 4/5
14. No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy - 4/5
15. Winter World by A.G. Riddle - 3/5
matthewjorda: All you need to do is get yourself in a Joseph Conrad frame of mind (I'm going to release a summer House banger called "Joseph Conrad State Of Mind.")
Irfaneya: We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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DavidWilburJr1: How many have read Joseph Conrad’s ‘ Heart of Darkness’? About how far to go before we reach the end of the journey?
skydog811: “The terrosirt and the policeman both come form the same basket. Revolution, legality - countermoves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.”
― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
skydog811: “Preparation for the future was necessary, and he was willing to admit that the great change would perhaps come in the upheaval of a revolution. But he argued that revolutionary propaganda was a delicate work of high conscience."
― Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent
BandIdeaBot: Really, though: a Joseph Conrad live reading meets early American Football
ChadSchimke: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
omooba: ...Achebe expanded this criticism when he presented a Chancellor's Lecture at Amherst on 18 February 1975, An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". Decrying Joseph Conrad as "a bloody racist",[110]
rgtrendsetter: Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
-Joseph Conrad
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rgtrendsetter: Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life.
-Joseph Conrad
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rgtrendsetter: It is a maudlin and indecent verity that comes out through the strength of wine.
-Joseph Conrad
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rgtrendsetter: Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
-Joseph Conrad
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NnaanyiMmanya: Joseph Conrad was right.
ChadSchimke: Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad (1899)
LMandrakeJr: "He could get himself to believe anything—anything. He would have been a splendid leader of an extreme party. ‘What party?’ I asked. ‘Any party’, answered the other."
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Lillian43097940: “It’s only those who do nothing that make no mistakes.”
– Joseph Conrad, Novelist
culturaltutor: Who's that guy on the £20 note?
A painter called Joseph Mallord William Turner.
Does he deserve to be there? Well, he's probably the greatest English artist of all time...
teebsbot: OH MY FAVE BINDER COMPANY HAS RETURNED TO GET $5 OFF by Joseph Conrad is done,
truefactsbot: If a fan's sports team does well, they tend to talk about how "our" victory, but if they lose, they are nothing worth having. JOSEPH CONRAD
artofdarkpod: Icymi, our episode on the life and work of Joseph Conrad. An exile, sailor, novelist, and explorer of the darkness.
kushdhuvad: "Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination,
not invention, is the supreme master of art, as of life."
JOSEPH CONRAD
hemingweight: 2 of 5 stars to Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
R_for_Rumi: ° Droll thing life is - that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most U can hope frm it is some knowledge of urself - that comes too late - a crop of inextinguishable regrets.
° Life is a greater riddle than some of us think it to be!
Joseph Conrad
EuroCompLit: New book: "Joseph Conrad and Material Culture.From the Rise of the Commodity Transcendent to the Scramble for Africa" by: Merry M. Pawlowski
Pub Date: April 2023. Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press.
MelanieJaxn: "This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still." ~ Joseph Conrad
matthewjorda: Joseph Conrad, Outcast Of the Islands: a Roger Mooreish bloke stands, shirt open, sleeves rolled, a woman's arms clasped about his knees. Now *that* is what I call scholarly material.
yassoma: Joseph Conrad - I found out today - was also an exophonic writer!
"I value too much our beautiful Polish literature to introduce into it my worthless twaddle. But for Englishmen my capacities are just sufficient."
Evading the risk of being lost in translation, or wanting to…
TommyPotts14: “All that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men.”
― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
e43846: Felicity felicity ... is quaffed out of a golden cup ... the flavour is with you alone and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.,Joseph Conrad,self, reliance,
MichalskiJen: “It was written I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice.”--Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
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Madz_Grant: Amazed by what goes and what doesn't go with Alzheimer's. My dad would now struggle to choose an outfit or go anywhere by himself but yesterday I found he could speak quite lucidly about his favourite author Joseph Conrad. 30 minutes of Nostromo-chat. Both bizarre and wonderful
william_whyte: Things I have just learnt: that Joseph Conrad wrote a preface to his wife's cookbook.
PostkartenB: Interessanter Artikel: 3 Hefte - EDGAR WALLACE + Carl Zuckmayer und Joseph Conrad
DriverAutonomy: Albert Camus, Joseph Conrad, and Quentin Tarantino walked into a bar
abugane84420277: [The wilderness] had caressed him, and—lo!—he had withered; it had taken him, loved him, embraced him, got into his veins, consumed his flesh, and sealed his soul to its own by the inconceivable ceremonies of some devilish initiation.,Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness,corruption,
butia112724: It is a fact that the bitterest contradictions and the deadliest conflicts of the world are carried on in every individual breast capable of feeling and passion. [An anarchist],Joseph Conrad, A Set Of Six,conflict, passion,
clement15092227: Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.,Joseph Conrad,Life, Art, Imagination ,
issa83970: The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.,Joseph Conrad,chronic-illness, cure, cures, healing, illness, inspirational, recovery,
SimonOvertonArt: Without eyes or ears, they have no frame of reference-and without a frame of reference, they have no clear identities.
Joseph Conrad - Heart Of Darkness
LeeMartinAuthor: “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, before all, to make you see." ~ Joseph Conrad
Coming tomorrow: a new blog post about using the senses to tell the truth.
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