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After Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.
- There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened…
- The old river in its broad reach rested unruffled at the decline of day, after ages of good service done to the race that peopled…
- We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen.
- I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
- Life knows us not and we do not know life—-we don’t know even our own thoughts. Half the words we use have no meaning whatever…
- Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after stormie seas, Ease after warre,…
- The mind of man is capable of anything--because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future. What was there after…
- It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy…
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