Frases célebres de Joseph Conrad
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Frases de hombres de Joseph Conrad
“Él atraía a los hombres por lo que en ellos había de más valioso.”
Fuente: El corazón de las tinieblas.
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Frases de vida de Joseph Conrad
Fuente: Epitafio. Versos de Edmund Spenser.
Fuente: Entre la Tierra y el Mar (El copartícipe secreto), cap. 1, 1909.
Fuente: El corazón de las tinieblas
Heart of Darkness
Youth
Joseph Conrad Frases y Citas
“La fuerza no es sino una casualidad nacida de la debilidad de los otros.”
El corazón de las tinieblas y otros relatos
Fuente: El corazón de las tinieblas, cap. 1, 1899.
Fuente: Citado en Canales, Carlos, del Rey Miguel. Campos de muerte: Geografía del mal. Editorial EDAF, 2016. ISBN 9788441436367.
El corazón de las tinieblas
Fuente: El corazón de las tinieblas, cap. 1, 1899.
“La fuerza de uno es solo un accidente que se deriva de la debilidad de los otros.”
Fuente: El corazón de las tinieblas.
“La mayor virtud de un buen marinero es una saludable incertidumbre.”
Fuente: El corazón de las tinieblas.
Fuente: El corazón de las tinieblas.
El corazón de las tinieblas
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness
Joseph Conrad: Frases en inglés
“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go”
Fuente: Heart of Darkness
“His face was like the autumn sky, overcast one moment and bright the next.”
Fuente: Heart of Darkness
Letter to Robert Cunninghame-Graham (January 1898), published in The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, edited by Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies, Vol. 2, p. 30. ISBN 0521257484
“I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.”
Pt. I
Under Western Eyes (1911)
“In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom.”
The Arrow of Gold http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/argld10h.htm (1919), Author's note,
Letter to H. G. Wells (February 1902), published in The Collected Letters of Joseph Conrad, edited by Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies, Vol. 2, p. 509
Youth, A Narrative http://www.gutenberg.org/files/525/525.txt (1902)
Victory: An Island Tale http://www.gutenberg.org/files/6378/6378-h/6378-h.htm (1915), Part II, ch. 3
“The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery.”
Typhoon (1902), Ch. 2
“Let a fool be made serviceable according to his folly.”
Pt. I, ch. 3
Under Western Eyes (1911)
Referring to Mr. Burns. Compare to Heart of Darkness' manager: "He was becoming confidential now, but I fancy my unresponsive attitude must have exasperated him at last, for he judged it necessary to inform me he feared neither God nor devil, let alone any mere man. I said I could see that very well..."
The Shadow Line (1915)
Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 1
Often misquoted as "A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
Nostromo (1904)
“"God for men — religions for women," he muttered sometimes.”
Part First: The Silver of the Mine, Ch. 4
Nostromo (1904)
“Action is consolatory. It is the enemy of thought and the friend of flattering illusions.”
Part First: The Silver of the Mine, Ch. 6
Nostromo (1904)
Tales of Unrest http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1202/1202-h/1202-h.htm. An Outpost of Progress (1902)
Tales of Unrest http://www.gutenberg.org/files/1202/1202-h/1202-h.htm. The Return (1902)
London Bridge to the Royal Albert Dock
The Mirror of the Sea (1906), On the River Thames, Ch. 16
Notes on Life and Letters (1921), Part II,, "Tradition"