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Some 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…
- 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 word 'ivory' rang in the air, was whispered, was sighed. You would think they were praying to it. A taint of imbecile rapacity blew…
- Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb…
- 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…
- 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…
- Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most…
- I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
- Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength…
- They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could…
- Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge…
- 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…
- Vanity plays lurid tricks with our memory, and the truth of every passion wants some pretence to make it live.
- I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid…
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