Quote of the Day (Joseph Conrad, on Judging a Man)

“You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”— Polish-born British novelist Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Lord Jim (1900)

Quote of the Day (Joseph Conrad, on Man and Land)

“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, Lord Jim (1900)

Quote of the Day (Joseph Conrad, on the ‘Grim Shadow of Self-Knowledge’)

“No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.” —Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)

Quote of the Day (Joseph Conrad, on the ‘Grim Shadow of Self-Knowledge’)

“For it is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.”— Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim (1900)