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Before Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- 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 reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return.…
- My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is,…
- My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel —…
- Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I…
- Watching a coast as it slips by the ship is like thinking about an enigma. There it is before you, smiling, frowning, inviting, grand, mean,…
- I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more /the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea,…
- It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share…
- I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men…
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