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Joseph Conrad, vlastným menom Józef Teodor Konrad Nalęcz Korzeniowski, bol významný anglický spisovateľ poľského pôvodu, považovaný za jedného zo zakladateľov modernizmu. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. december 1857 – 3. august 1924
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„Život je neustála vojna a mier je iba plodom víťazstva.“

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„More sa podobá srdcu ženy.“

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„Boh je pre mužov a náboženstvo pre ženy.“

Joseph Conrad

„Byť ženou je strašne ťažké: spočíva to predovšetkým v tom, že má do činenia s mužmi.“

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Joseph Conrad Citáty o živote

„Človek môže v sebe zničiť všetko, lásku, nenávisť, vieru a dokonca aj pochybnosť; ale pokiaľ lipne na živote, nemôže zničiť horúčku.“

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„Každý vek sa živí ilúziami, ináč by ľudia skoro zavrhli život a ľudský rod by vyhynul.“

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Joseph Conrad Citáty o ľuďoch

„Legitímna je ktorákoľvek ambícia, s výnimkou tej, ktorá sa derie hore po biede alebo dôverčivosť ľudí.“

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„Vyhýbajte sa ľuďom, ktorí s vami vždy súhlasia.“

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Joseph Conrad citáty a výroky

„Človek je robotník. Ak ním nie je, nie je ničím.“

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„Každá ctižiadosť je legitímnou dovtedy, kým sa nezačne škrabať nahor po biede a dôverčivosti iných.“

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„Nemôžem povedať, či slamka niekedy zachránila topiaceho sa človeka, ale viem, že púhy pohľad stačí na zastavenie zúfalstva. Pretože v skutočnosti my, čo sme impulzívne stvorenia, nie sme stvorenia zúfalstva.“

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„Všetky ambície sú zákonné, okrem tých, ktoré sa šplhajú hore po trápeniach alebo dôverčivostiach ľudstva.“

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„Z naozaj veľkých nepriateľov máme iba jedného - čas.“

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„Známkou neskúseného človeka je, že neverí v šťastie.“

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Joseph Conrad: Citáty v angličtine

“It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Heart of Darkness

Zdroj: Heart of Darkness

“It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.”

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“Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Under Western Eyes

Pt. IV, ch. 2
Under Western Eyes (1911)

“Like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Heart of Darkness

Zdroj: Heart of Darkness

“the mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as the future”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Heart of Darkness

Zdroj: Heart of Darkness

“I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life…”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Heart of Darkness

Zdroj: Heart of Darkness

“Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Under Western Eyes

Pt. I
Zdroj: Under Western Eyes (1911)
Kontext: Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. I have been for many years a teacher of languages. It is an occupation which at length becomes fatal to whatever share of imagination, observation, and insight an ordinary person may be heir to. To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

“Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.”

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Varianta: Gossip is what no one claims to like – but everybody enjoys.

“We couldn't understand because we were too far… and could not remember because we were traveling in the night of first ages, those ages that had gone, leaving hardly a sign… and no memories.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Heart of Darkness

Zdroj: Heart of Darkness

“Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean, insipid, or savage, and always mute with an air of whispering, "Come and find out".”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Heart of Darkness

Zdroj: Heart of Darkness

“We can never cease to be ourselves.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha The Secret Agent

Zdroj: The Secret Agent

“There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.”

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“In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility”

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“I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Heart of Darkness

Zdroj: Heart of Darkness

“They had behind them, to my mind, the terrific suggestiveness of words heard in dreams, of phrases spoken in nightmares.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Heart of Darkness

Zdroj: Heart of Darkness

“One can't live with one's finger everlastingly on one's pulse.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Heart of Darkness

Zdroj: Heart of Darkness

“And this also," said Marlow suddenly, "has been one of the dark places of the earth.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Heart of Darkness

Zdroj: Heart of Darkness

“And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Heart of Darkness

Zdroj: Heart of Darkness

“The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it much.”

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Zdroj: Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer

“I have a voice, too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Heart of Darkness

Zdroj: Heart of Darkness

“The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under an overcast sky--seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Heart of Darkness

Zdroj: Heart of Darkness

“Who knows what true loneliness is — not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Under Western Eyes

Pt. I, ch. 2
Under Western Eyes (1911)

“It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.”

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Joseph Conrad Lord Jim

Zdroj: Lord Jim

“Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene:

"Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please"

This also became Conrad's epitaph.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha The Rover

Zdroj: The Rover

“There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies - which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world - what I want to forget.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Heart of Darkness

Zdroj: Heart of Darkness

“I saw him open his mouth wide… as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men before him.”

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Joseph Conrad kniha Heart of Darkness

Zdroj: Heart of Darkness

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