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Him Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- You can t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty. And least of all…
- In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,…
- Society was calling to its accomplished child to come, to be taken care of, to be instructed, to be judged, to be condemned; it called…
- The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death
- A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
- To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
- He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him.…
- I let him run on, this papier-maché Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and…
- I saw him open his mouth wide. . . as though he had wanted to swallow all the air, all the earth, all the men…
- I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took…
- It echoed loudly within him because he was hollow at the core.
- Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for…
- Everything belonged to him. It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into prodigious peal of laughter that would shake…
- 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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- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden