As a writer I have a natural right to my subjects, because my past is my own.
If their course lies out of the beaten path of organized social life,
it is perhaps because I myself did in a sort break away from it early,
in obedience to an impulse which must have been very genuine since it has
sustained me through all my dangers of disillusion.
The mere fact of dealing with matters outside the general run of everyday experience laid me under the obligation of a more scrupulous fidelity to the truth of my own sensations.
The problem was to make unfamiliar things credible.
To do that I had to create them, reproduce for them, to envelope them in their proper atmosphere of actuality.
The conscious rendering of truth in thought, and fact which has always been my aim.
- Conrad
If their course lies out of the beaten path of organized social life,
it is perhaps because I myself did in a sort break away from it early,
in obedience to an impulse which must have been very genuine since it has
sustained me through all my dangers of disillusion.
The mere fact of dealing with matters outside the general run of everyday experience laid me under the obligation of a more scrupulous fidelity to the truth of my own sensations.
The problem was to make unfamiliar things credible.
To do that I had to create them, reproduce for them, to envelope them in their proper atmosphere of actuality.
The conscious rendering of truth in thought, and fact which has always been my aim.
- Conrad
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