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Incomprehensible Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- 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…
- 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,…
- In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
- Egoism , which is the moving force of the world, and altruism , which is its morality , these two contradictory instincts , of which…
- 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.…
- 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…
- He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.
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- It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering, and misty are the… — Joseph Conrad
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