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Into Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.
- 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,…
- 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.…
- Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of…
- We are snared into doing things for which we get called names, and things for which we get hanged, and yet the spirit may well…
- In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.
- Nowhere else than upon the sea do the days, weeks, and months fall away quicker into the past. They seem to be left astern as…
- A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.
- claiming that the destructive practice of mountaintop removal mining, blowing the tops off mountains to get at the coal beneath, performs the "necessary" function of…
- The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves,…
- A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the…
- The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil water-way leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed somber under…
- Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and their murmurs in the twilight of life as mysterious as an…
- We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness
- I am afraid that if you want to go down into history you'll have to do something for it.
- I slipped the book into my pocket. I assure you to leave off reading was like tearing myself away from the shelter of an old…
- And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment…
- 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…
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