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Alone Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most…
- The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- We live as we dream--alone....
- No, it is impossible; it is impossible to convey the life-sensation of any given epoch of one’s existence--that which makes its truth, its meaning--its subtle…
- It seems to me I am trying to tell you a dream--making a vain attempt, because no relation of a dream can convey the dream-sensation,…
- But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.
- Madness alone is truly terrifying, inasmuch as you cannot placate it by threats, persuasion, or bribes.
- We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
- I -- I alone know how to mourn for him as he deserves.' But while we were still shaking hands, such a look of awful…
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