“History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced.”

— Joseph Conrad, The Mirror of the Sea, 1906, Ch. 8

About Joseph Conrad

1857 – 1924

Polish-British novelist, author of "Heart of Darkness".

“All intellectual and artistic ambitions are permissible, up to and even beyond the limit of prudent sanity.”

“It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.”

“The sea never changes and its works, for all the talk of men, are wrapped in mystery.”

“Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to an humble and grateful mind.”

“If music be the food of love, play on.”

“Beauty is the mark God sets upon virtue.”

“If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.”

“The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness.”

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.”