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Makes Quotes by Joseph Conrad
- Some of us, regarding the ocean with understanding and affection, have seen it looking old, as if the immemorial ages had been stirred up from…
- It would take too long to explain the intimate alliance of contradictions in human nature which makes love itself wear at times the desperate shape…
- What makes mankind tragic is not that they are the victims of nature, it is that they are conscious of it.
- 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,…
- It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may…
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