Notes on Life & Letters - Joseph Conrad

another danger sprang up, a danger arising naturally from the new political alliances dividing Europe into tw ...

anxious to parade my wisdom, especially after it had been pointed out in answer to my cautious arguments that, ...

because a people cannot argue itself as a whole into a sophisticated state of mind out of deference for ...

benevolence, with a curious blindness to its grotesque and ghastly character. It was the idea of deliverin ...

gratitude would have been too great, the sense of obligation too crushing, the joy of deliverance too fearful ...

monstrous thing, and monsters, as we all know, cannot live. You can’t base your conduct on a monstrous ...

Whatever may be the future of Russia and the final organisation of Germany, the old hostility must remain ...

Already there are innuendoes, threats, hints thrown out, and even awful instances fabricated out of inadequate ...

A NOTE ON THE POLISH PROBLEM—1916 We must start from the assumption that promises made by proclamati ...

classes. The very children are affected by it as soon as they begin to think. The political value ...

tolerate a privileged community (of, to Russia, unnational complexion) within the body of the Empire. All h ...

a factor in the history of Europe and having proved its vitality under oppression, has established its right to ...

and on the wisdom, the tact, the abilities, the good-will of men entrusted with its initiation and its further cont ...

few men whose premature death could influence human affairs more than on the surface. The deeper stre ...

did at that time. What for want of a more definite term I must call my mind was fixed ...

the aspirations, whatever they might be, of the masses. Very plausible all this sounded. War does ...

would have something of a migratory character, the invasion of a tribe. My present, all that gave ...

red fruit. The sincerest words of peace, words of menace, and I verily believe words of abasement, even ...

was the simplest sort of a Continental holiday. And I am certain that my companions, near as they a ...

and if there was a great flutter of evening papers in the multitude of hands there were no signs of extrao ...