"Victory" Quotes
"Victory" by Joseph Conrad is a psychological adventure novel exploring the isolation and moral dilemmas of Axel Heyst, a solitary man whose life is upended by his encounter with a vulnerable woman and a trio of ruthless villains on a remote island.
fiction | 410 pages | Published in NaN
Quotes
The world is a bad dog. It will bite you if you give it a chance.
The only thing that saves us is efficiency. Efficiency is the highest virtue, the only virtue that saves us.
Life is not an empty dream. It's real. It's earnest. It's serious.
The worst of being a coward is that you're always haunted by a sense of having done the wrong thing because you're afraid to do the right thing.
Wealth and poverty are the parents of good and evil.
There's no such thing as a small war, there's no such thing as a little enemy; a little war and a little peace are like a little good and a little pregnancy. They don't exist.
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.
Toil and risk are the price of glory, but it is a lovely thing to live with courage and die leaving an everlasting fame.
Youth is the time for courage and adventure.
Men of thought, be up and stirring as the day begins; the night's long toil is past, the morning of your glory dawns.
